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How popular is “Dawna” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dawna” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dawna” 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 “Dawna” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dawna” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dawna” 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
1919 6 0.000002843 6 100%
1921 10 0.000004284 10 100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 100%
1923 10 0.000004343 10 100%
1924 11 0.000004619 11 100%
1925 11 0.000004714 11 100%
1926 12 0.000005227 12 100%
1927 13 0.000005605 13 100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 100%
1929 15 0.000006843 15 100%
1930 13 0.000005847 13 100%
1931 17 0.000008078 17 100%
1932 15 0.000007105 15 100%
1933 19 0.000009503 19 100%
1934 22 0.000010593 22 100%
1935 20 0.00000957 20 100%
1936 20 0.000009627 20 100%
1937 10 0.000004693 10 100%
1938 25 0.000011299 25 100%
1939 19 0.000008623 19 100%
1940 27 0.000011725 27 100%
1941 28 0.000011492 28 100%
1942 39 0.000014276 39 100%
1943 28 0.00000992 28 100%
1944 32 0.000011896 32 100%
1945 40 0.000015078 40 100%
1946 43 0.000013457 43 100%
1947 53 0.000014713 53 100%
1948 45 0.000013034 45 100%
1949 40 0.000011478 40 100%
1950 53 0.000015128 53 100%
1951 66 0.000017917 66 100%
1952 51 0.000013428 51 100%
1953 63 0.000016348 63 100%
1954 79 0.000019846 79 100%
1955 91 0.000022665 91 100%
1956 234 0.000056754 234 100%
1957 156 0.000037124 156 100%
1958 152 0.000036769 152 100%
1959 168 0.000040404 168 100%
1960 175 0.00004213 175 100%
1961 177 0.00004273 177 100%
1962 180 0.000044606 180 100%
1963 210 0.000053054 210 100%
1964 258 0.000066365 258 100%
1965 233 0.000064268 233 100%
1966 264 0.000075957 264 100%
1967 227 0.000066865 227 100%
1968 233 0.000068967 233 100%
1969 200 0.000057549 200 100%
1970 195 0.000054069 195 100%
1971 169 0.000049237 169 100%
1972 159 0.000050589 159 100%
1973 107 0.000035467 107 100%
1974 117 0.000038487 117 100%
1975 118 0.000039081 118 100%
1976 92 0.00003032 92 100%
1977 66 0.000020778 66 100%
1978 63 0.00001985 63 100%
1979 73 0.000021942 73 100%
1980 96 0.00002787 96 100%
1981 91 0.000026305 91 100%
1982 76 0.000021665 76 100%
1983 49 0.000014148 49 100%
1984 57 0.000016338 57 100%
1985 37 0.000010367 37 100%
1986 45 0.000012651 45 100%
1987 40 0.000011094 40 100%
1988 42 0.000011367 42 100%
1989 42 0.000010925 42 100%
1990 39 0.000009867 39 100%
1991 30 0.000007702 30 100%
1992 30 0.00000781 30 100%
1993 34 0.000009018 34 100%
1994 25 0.000006725 25 100%
1995 19 0.000005188 19 100%
1996 22 0.000006032 22 100%
1997 24 0.000006619 24 100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 100%
1999 19 0.000005144 19 100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 100%
2002 10 0.000002675 10 100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 100%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 100%

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