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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Dwayne” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dwayne” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dwayne” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dwayne” 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
1912 7 0.000007085 7 -100%
1913 7 0.000006156 7 -100%
1914 15 0.000010591 15 -100%
1915 28 0.00001528 28 -100%
1916 20 0.000010339 20 -100%
1917 26 0.000012956 26 -100%
1918 32 0.000014739 32 -100%
1919 26 0.000012321 26 -100%
1920 39 0.000017236 39 -100%
1921 58 0.000024845 58 -100%
1922 59 0.000025774 59 -100%
1923 66 0.000028665 66 -100%
1924 93 0.000039049 93 -100%
1925 81 0.000034715 81 -100%
1926 81 0.00003528 81 -100%
1927 90 0.000038804 90 -100%
1928 104 0.000045999 104 -100%
1929 104 0.000047442 104 -100%
1930 136 0.000061171 136 -100%
1931 153 0.000072705 6 147 -92%
1932 163 0.000077204 163 -100%
1933 166 0.000083023 166 -100%
1934 199 0.00009582 199 -100%
1935 191 0.000091392 191 -100%
1936 213 0.000102523 213 -100%
1937 202 0.000094806 202 -100%
1938 186 0.000084065 186 -100%
1939 213 0.000096667 213 -100%
1940 231 0.000100318 231 -100%
1941 204 0.000083729 204 -100%
1942 198 0.000072479 198 -100%
1943 196 0.000069441 196 -100%
1944 266 0.000098882 266 -100%
1945 248 0.000093482 248 -100%
1946 303 0.000094827 303 -100%
1947 390 0.000108264 390 -100%
1948 345 0.000099927 345 -100%
1949 362 0.00010388 362 -100%
1950 342 0.000097621 342 -100%
1951 391 0.000106142 391 -100%
1952 401 0.000105582 401 -100%
1953 485 0.000125855 5 480 -98%
1954 536 0.000134649 536 -100%
1955 588 0.000146448 588 -100%
1956 806 0.000195487 6 800 -99%
1957 1045 0.000248683 8 1037 -98%
1958 1403 0.000339389 5 1398 -99%
1959 1917 0.00046104 10 1907 -99%
1960 3058 0.000736191 21 3037 -99%
1961 3502 0.000845424 19 3483 -99%
1962 3136 0.000777128 17 3119 -99%
1963 3147 0.000795058 11 3136 -99%
1964 2893 0.00074416 20 2873 -99%
1965 2535 0.000699224 14 2521 -99%
1966 2274 0.000654265 9 2265 -99%
1967 2172 0.000639784 15 2157 -99%
1968 2097 0.000620706 16 2081 -98%
1969 2134 0.000614044 20 2114 -98%
1970 2337 0.000647994 20 2317 -98%
1971 1840 0.000536075 14 1826 -98%
1972 1605 0.00051066 11 1594 -99%
1973 1448 0.000479965 13 1435 -98%
1974 1217 0.000400329 17 1200 -97%
1975 1261 0.000417633 13 1248 -98%
1976 1336 0.000440299 10 1326 -99%
1977 1472 0.000463404 12 1460 -98%
1978 1248 0.000393211 11 1237 -98%
1979 1184 0.000355876 17 1167 -97%
1980 1082 0.000314123 13 1069 -98%
1981 1017 0.000293984 7 1010 -99%
1982 975 0.000277939 12 963 -98%
1983 965 0.000278633 9 956 -98%
1984 874 0.000250519 13 861 -97%
1985 887 0.000248521 7 880 -98%
1986 842 0.000236711 17 825 -96%
1987 813 0.000225482 11 802 -97%
1988 838 0.00022679 10 828 -98%
1989 879 0.000228641 9 870 -98%
1990 836 0.000211513 7 829 -98%
1991 786 0.000201783 7 779 -98%
1992 675 0.000175723 675 -100%
1993 590 0.000156487 590 -100%
1994 556 0.000149557 556 -100%
1995 507 0.000138443 507 -100%
1996 470 0.000128866 470 -100%
1997 418 0.000115287 418 -100%
1998 419 0.000113914 419 -100%
1999 364 0.000098542 364 -100%
2000 407 0.000107675 407 -100%
2001 339 0.00009056 339 -100%
2002 323 0.000086403 323 -100%
2003 343 0.000090208 343 -100%
2004 294 0.000076945 294 -100%
2005 339 0.00008817 339 -100%
2006 389 0.000098327 389 -100%
2007 360 0.000090052 360 -100%
2008 347 0.00008828 347 -100%
2009 347 0.000090834 347 -100%
2010 349 0.000094433 349 -100%
2011 321 0.000087758 321 -100%
2012 313 0.000085581 313 -100%
2013 323 0.000088598 323 -100%
2014 246 0.000066372 246 -100%
2015 293 0.00007917 293 -100%
2016 222 0.000060512 222 -100%
2017 225 0.000062916 225 -100%
2018 234 0.000066555 234 -100%
2019 199 0.000057333 199 -100%
2020 181 0.000054182 181 -100%
2021 167 0.000049292 167 -100%
2022 149 0.000044042 149 -100%
2023 140 0.000042281 140 -100%
2024 129 0.000038756 129 -100%

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