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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Dawn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dawn” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dawn” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Dawn” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Dawn” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Dawn” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Dawn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dawn” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1890 7 0.000023225 7 100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 100%
1912 17 0.000017205 17 100%
1913 13 0.000011432 13 100%
1914 30 0.000021181 30 100%
1915 58 0.000031652 58 100%
1916 57 0.000029466 57 100%
1917 54 0.000026909 54 100%
1918 49 0.000022569 49 100%
1919 63 0.000029854 63 100%
1920 84 0.000037125 84 100%
1921 94 0.000040265 94 100%
1922 104 0.000045432 104 100%
1923 138 0.000059935 131 7 90%
1924 141 0.000059204 141 100%
1925 135 0.000057858 130 5 93%
1926 180 0.0000784 175 5 94%
1927 199 0.0000858 194 5 95%
1928 188 0.000083151 188 100%
1929 228 0.000104007 223 5 96%
1930 221 0.000099402 221 100%
1931 299 0.000142084 291 8 95%
1932 325 0.000153934 319 6 96%
1933 313 0.000156543 307 6 96%
1934 295 0.000142044 288 7 95%
1935 398 0.00019044 398 100%
1936 512 0.000246441 512 100%
1937 465 0.000218241 457 8 97%
1938 480 0.000216942 471 9 96%
1939 468 0.000212395 468 100%
1940 436 0.000189344 427 9 96%
1941 537 0.000220405 530 7 97%
1942 681 0.000249285 675 6 98%
1943 770 0.000272802 765 5 99%
1944 654 0.000243116 654 100%
1945 750 0.000282708 745 5 99%
1946 1040 0.000325477 1040 100%
1947 1275 0.000353938 1269 6 99%
1948 1241 0.000359448 1241 100%
1949 1285 0.000368747 1285 100%
1950 1411 0.000402756 1411 100%
1951 1539 0.000417782 1533 6 99%
1952 1890 0.00049763 1884 6 99%
1953 2648 0.000687142 2640 8 99%
1954 3366 0.000845578 3356 10 99%
1955 4225 0.001052283 4216 9 100%
1956 5139 0.001246411 5127 12 100%
1957 5170 0.001230325 5159 11 100%
1958 5699 0.0013786 5674 25 99%
1959 7924 0.001905728 7899 25 99%
1960 7835 0.001886218 7812 23 99%
1961 9172 0.002214228 9150 22 100%
1962 9004 0.002231269 8982 22 100%
1963 8439 0.00213203 8414 25 99%
1964 12651 0.003254189 12614 37 99%
1965 13372 0.003688371 13341 31 100%
1966 13634 0.003922714 13603 31 100%
1967 13210 0.003891134 13167 43 99%
1968 13470 0.003987079 13441 29 100%
1969 13819 0.003976321 13768 51 99%
1970 15724 0.004359889 15681 43 99%
1971 14328 0.004174394 14288 40 99%
1972 11382 0.003621388 11340 42 99%
1973 9929 0.003291141 9890 39 99%
1974 9453 0.003109541 9417 36 99%
1975 8798 0.00291383 8744 54 99%
1976 7070 0.002330027 7048 22 99%
1977 6118 0.001926023 6096 22 99%
1978 5248 0.001653502 5217 31 99%
1979 4748 0.001427112 4724 24 99%
1980 4496 0.001305267 4479 17 99%
1981 3859 0.001115519 3839 20 99%
1982 3102 0.000884274 3088 14 99%
1983 2659 0.000767756 2641 18 99%
1984 2116 0.00060652 2105 11 99%
1985 1739 0.000487236 1730 9 99%
1986 1463 0.000411293 1452 11 98%
1987 1162 0.000322275 1154 8 99%
1988 1061 0.000287141 1061 100%
1989 863 0.00022448 857 6 99%
1990 749 0.000189501 740 9 98%
1991 675 0.000173287 669 6 98%
1992 619 0.000161144 613 6 98%
1993 497 0.00013182 497 100%
1994 397 0.000106788 391 6 97%
1995 325 0.000088746 320 5 97%
1996 260 0.000071288 260 100%
1997 318 0.000087706 318 100%
1998 264 0.000071774 264 100%
1999 231 0.000062536 231 100%
2000 240 0.000063494 240 100%
2001 179 0.000047818 179 100%
2002 197 0.000052698 197 100%
2003 200 0.000052599 200 100%
2004 157 0.00004109 157 100%
2005 125 0.000032511 125 100%
2006 129 0.000032607 129 100%
2007 122 0.000030518 122 100%
2008 114 0.000029003 114 100%
2009 113 0.00002958 113 100%
2010 92 0.000024894 92 100%
2011 94 0.000025699 94 100%
2012 90 0.000024608 90 100%
2013 78 0.000021395 78 100%
2014 94 0.000025362 94 100%
2015 99 0.00002675 99 100%
2016 85 0.000023169 85 100%
2017 103 0.000028802 103 100%
2018 100 0.000028442 100 100%
2019 86 0.000024777 86 100%
2020 83 0.000024846 83 100%
2021 96 0.000028336 96 100%
2022 100 0.000029558 100 100%
2023 78 0.000023556 78 100%
2024 114 0.00003425 108 6 89%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Dawn:

  1. Dawin
  2. Dawit
  3. Dawkins
  4. Dawlton
  5. Dawm
  6. Dawn (this page)
  7. Dawna
  8. Dawnae
  9. Dawnda
  10. Dawndee
  11. Dawndi