Dawne
Dawne reached its high-water mark in 1965 at number 904, and has been recorded 2,603 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1994. About 2,200 Dawnes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dawne
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,603
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1965
- Best rank
- 904th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1926
How old the living Dawnes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,603 babies given the name since 1926, about 2,200 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 660 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Dawne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dawne is most concentrated in Michigan (2.9×), New Jersey (2.8×), New York (2.7×), Illinois (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1965
The most popular girls’ names the year Dawne peaked:
Related names
Dawne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.