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Duwayne

Duwayne reached its high-water mark in 1960 at number 835, and has been recorded 3,601 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2017. About 2,100 Duwaynes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Duwayne

By the numbers

Total US births
3,601
Estimated living today
2,100
Median age today
60
Peak year
1960
Best rank
835th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1916

How old the living Duwaynes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,601 babies given the name since 1916, about 2,100 are alive — 59 in every hundred. Roughly 70 of them are children and 850 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.

Notable Duwaynes

People named Duwayne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Duwayne is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Duwayne is most concentrated in Wisconsin (22.2×), North Dakota (16.9×), Minnesota (16.0×), South Dakota (4.8×).

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

Names of 1960

The most popular boys’ names the year Duwayne peaked:

All the names of 1960

Try it on yourself

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.