girls:
6k births since 1919
#2139 (63rd percentile)
overall:
6k births since 1919
#3494 (55th percentile)
The name Dawna is the #3,494 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,017 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 54.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,139 (62.6% percentile) for all time with 6,017 births since 1919.
Dawna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (first recorded for girls in 1919). Birth data for Dawna is available in 95 out of the 105 years between 1919 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Dawna reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 33.1% percentile (ranked #496) with 150 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 150 births per million (ranked 33.1% percentile). Despite a low point in 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Dawna ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dawna".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dawna is pronounced as DAW-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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