boys:
4.4k births since 1916
#1840 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.4k births since 1916
#4150 (46th percentile)
The name Dwaine is the #4,150 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,353 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 46.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,840 (59.9% percentile) for all time with 4,353 births since 1916.
Dwaine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (first recorded for boys in 1916). Birth data for Dwaine is available in 104 out of the 106 years between 1916 and 2021. 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, Dwaine reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 16.4% percentile (ranked #548) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 69 births per million (ranked 13.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dwaine".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dwaine is pronounced as dwayn, which has 1 syllables.
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