How rare is the name Dawna?

5,293 people in the United States have the first name Dawna, about 1 in 57,062. It ranks #3,761 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

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#3,761

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,293
About
1 in 57,062
This common or more
83%
Who bears it

Of the 5,293 people named Dawna, 83.8% reported their origin as White, 6.2% as Black and 3.7% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dawna peaked in 1966, when 264 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19192023
Peak year
1966
Births that year
264
In 2023
5 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,017 babies have been given the name since 1919. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Dawna by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,199. The largest share of babies named Dawna, 40.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1910s#10,9266
1920s#5,56893
1930s#3,307180
1940s#2,406375
1950s#1,5861,113
1960s#1,1992,157
1970s#1,8061,159
1980s#3,115575
1990s#6,932248
2000s#19,34275
2010s#29,44831
2020s#39,3255
Greatest Generation 1901–271.3%
Silent Generation 1928–456.5%
Baby boom 1946–6438.1%
Generation X 1965–8040.1%
Millennials 1981–9611.3%
Generation Z 1997–122.3%
2013 and later0.4%

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 Dawna is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dawna has been most common in Utah (6.2×), Maine (5.4×), and Oklahoma (3.1×), and least common in New York (0.41×).

3,181 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 Dawna

#3,759 Carleen · 5,304#3,760 Rona · 5,294#3,762 Henley · 5,292#3,763 Naima · 5,290

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dawna, most common first.

#217 Dawn · 252,273#264 Dana · 210,579#1,745 Danna · 17,337#2,012 Dayna · 13,651#5,825 Daina · 2,852#6,734 Dawne · 2,348#15,769 Daena · 725#21,445 Dawana · 473

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