How rare is the name Dewayne?

17,092 people in the United States have the first name Dewayne, about 1 in 17,671. It ranks #1,764 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DEWAYNE

#1,764

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
17,092
About
1 in 17,671
This common or more
76.9%
Who bears it

Of the 17,092 people named Dewayne, 46.7% reported their origin as Black, 45.6% as White and 3.7% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dewayne peaked in 1963, when 655 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19122025
Peak year
1963
Births that year
655
In 2025*
55 ▼92%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 26,598 babies have been given the name since 1912. 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.

Dewayne by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #704. The largest share of babies named Dewayne, 30.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1910s#2,797185
1920s#1,649675
1930s#1,0371,354
1940s#1,0071,847
1950s#8823,402
1960s#7045,903
1970s#7684,967
1980s#1,0533,379
1990s#1,7151,983
2000s#2,4401,556
2010s#3,4801,026
2020s#5,377321
Greatest Generation 1901–272.6%
Silent Generation 1928–459.5%
Baby boom 1946–6427.7%
Generation X 1965–8030.8%
Millennials 1981–9616.6%
Generation Z 1997–129.2%
2013 and later3.6%

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 Dewayne is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dewayne has been most common in Arkansas (3.2×), Mississippi (3×), and Tennessee (2.9×), and least common in New Jersey (0.18×).

22,391 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 Dewayne

#1,762 Kade · 17,141#1,763 Teresita · 17,139#1,765 Millie · 17,079#1,766 Reuben · 17,061

Spelled almost the same

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

#2,078 Deanne · 13,070#6,763 Deane · 2,334#13,579 Dewan · 886#17,543 Dewanna · 627#17,988 Deeanne · 604#22,398 Dewana · 445#23,687 Dewain · 412#24,628 Dewaine · 390

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