Dwaine

Where Dwaine comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Dwaine.

  • Vowel-ended
Dwaine through the years
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,897 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1951
    Peak, #702
    97 babies named Dwaine, its best rank.
  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

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.