girls:
462 births since 1931
#5254 (8th percentile)
boys:
76.5k births since 1912
#376 (92nd percentile)
overall:
77k births since 1912
#820 (89th percentile)
The name Dwayne is the #820 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 76,953 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 89.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #376 (91.8% percentile) for all time with 76,491 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,254 (8.1% percentile) for all time with 462 births since 1931.
Dwayne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1931 for girls).
The name Dwayne has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dwayne reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 83.8% percentile (ranked #109) with 1,614 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 1,614 births per million (ranked 83.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dwayne ranks #776 for boys (14.8% percentile) with 76 births per million, which is 4.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dwayne reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #755) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dwayne".
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