Dwaine vs Dwane
American parents have registered 4,362 Dwaines since 1880, against 3,170 Dwanes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Dwaine Dwane
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 106 years in which either name was published, Dwaine for 82 years and Dwane for 24 years. The lead changed hands 23 times.
- 1915–1917 Dwane ahead
- 1918–1976 Dwaine ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1977–1984 Dwane ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1985–1999 Dwaine ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2007–2009 Dwane ahead
- 2010–2024 Dwaine ahead, apart from one short spell
13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Dwaine | Dwane | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 4,362 | 3,170 |
| Most in one year | 112 | 102 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 2,600 | 2,000 |
| Median age today | 61 | 59 |
| Peak year | 1959 | 1963 |
| Best rank | 722nd boys | 760th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1916 | 1915 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 4,362 | 0 / 3,170 |
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 Dwaines alive today are over 61; half the Dwanes are over 59. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Dwaine Nebraska (14.0×), Iowa (7.1×), Minnesota (4.3×)
- Dwane Kansas (4.7×), Ohio (3.8×), California (1.9×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Dwaine | Dwane |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 16 | 57 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dwaine and Dwane.