first name
DAWN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 252,273 people named Dawn, 86.4% reported their origin as White, 6.4% as Black and 3.3% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Dawn peaked in 1970, when 15,724 babies got the name.
At least 290,680 babies have been given the name since 1888. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Dawn by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #62. The largest share of babies named Dawn, 56.7%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Dawn is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dawn has been most common in Delaware (2.2×), Wisconsin (2.1×), and Michigan (2×), and least common in Mississippi (0.29×).
285,949 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Dawn
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dawn, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Dawn ranks #19,013 of 156,621, with 1,430 people. See Dawn as a last name
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