girls:
35 births since 1971
#5681 (1st percentile)
boys:
810 births since 1956
#3777 (18th percentile)
overall:
845 births since 1956
#6894 (11th percentile)
The name Dawan is the #6,894 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 845 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 10.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,777 (17.6% percentile) for all time with 810 births since 1956. For girls, it ranks #5,681 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1971.
Dawan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for boys and 1971 for girls). Birth data for Dawan is available in 50 out of the 68 years between 1956 and 2023 (50 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dawan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dawan reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #658) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dawan ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 14.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dawan reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #770) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1983.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dawan".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Dawan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Dawan is pronounced as duh-WAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DUH-wuhn, at 13.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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