Dawne
Recorded 1926–1994 · United States
Dawne was most popular in 1965, when 124 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,537 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,603 people named Dawne.
Dawne over time
How old is the name Dawne?
Dawne first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1926, which makes it about 99 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 67 of the 100 years since. It was last recorded in 1994.
How many people are named Dawne?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,603 American births named Dawne between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,181 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Dawne in 2025?
Dawne was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Dawne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Dawne is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,603 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Dawne?
Roughly 2,181 Americans named Dawne are alive today — 84% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 61 years old, and half are between 55 and 67. That is a narrow band: Dawne arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Dawne is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org