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Dewanna vs Dewie

American parents have registered 727 Dewannas since 1880, against 255 Dewies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dewanna against Dewie, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dewanna Dewie

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 74 years in which either name was published, Dewanna for 48 years and Dewie for 26 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Dewanna Dewie
Total US births 727255
Most in one year 3019
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 64012
Median age today 5588
Peak year 19571928
Best rank 1,989th girls1,822nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19301898
Girls / boys 727 / 016 / 239

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Dewies alive today are over 88; half the Dewannas are over 55. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dewanna and Dewie.