boys:
7.6k births since 1913
#1359 (70th percentile)
overall:
7.6k births since 1913
#3099 (60th percentile)
The name Dwain is the #3,099 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,575 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 60.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,359 (70.4% percentile) for all time with 7,575 births since 1913.
Dwain first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (first recorded for boys in 1913). Birth data for Dwain is available in 109 out of the 110 years between 1913 and 2022. 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 boys, Dwain reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 33.3% percentile (ranked #437) with 118 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 118 births per million (ranked 33.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dwain".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dwain is pronounced as dwayn, which has 1 syllables.
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