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Dawnelle

About 526 American babies have been named Dawnelle since 1946, most of them around 1976. It has not appeared in the national data since 1993. About 480 Dawnelles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Dawnelle

By the numbers

Total US births
526
Estimated living today
480
Median age today
50
Peak year
1976
Best rank
3,002nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1946

How old the living Dawnelles are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 526 babies given the name since 1946, about 480 are alive — 91 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 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 Dawnelle is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Dawnelle is most concentrated in California (9.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1976

The most popular girls’ names the year Dawnelle peaked:

All the names of 1976

Related names

Dawnelle 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.