Dwaine

Where Dwaine comes from

Dwaine hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,897 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1951
    Peak, #702
    97 babies named Dwaine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,348.
  4. 1976
    Dwaine Carpenter born
    Player of American and Canadian football
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Dwaine Carpenter · Player of American and Canadian football, born 1976

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.