Dewain vs Dewaine
American parents have registered 800 Dewains since 1880, against 576 Dewaines. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Dewain Dewaine
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 76 years in which either name was published, Dewain for 53 years and Dewaine for 23 years. The lead changed hands 22 times.
- 1913–1938 Dewain ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1939–1941 Dewaine ahead
- 1942–1954 Dewain ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1955–1960 Dewaine ahead
- 1961–1965 Dewain ahead
- 1969–1972 Dewaine ahead
- 1973–1993 Dewain ahead, apart from 3 short spells
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Dewain | Dewaine | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 800 | 576 |
| Most in one year | 23 | 16 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 380 | 300 |
| Median age today | 63 | 64 |
| Peak year | 1953 | 1959 |
| Best rank | 1,592nd boys | 2,033rd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1913 | 1920 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 800 | 0 / 576 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dewain and Dewaine.