Meaning not yet researched.
Dewayne: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 55 in 2025. Its best rank was #303 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #303 in 1962; #2,457 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dewayne in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,457 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #303.
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Dewayne: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 55 boys in 2025. Peak: #303 in 1962 · most boys in one year: 651 (1962).
In 2025, 55 US boys were named Dewayne, making it the 2,457th most common boys’ name of the year, up 606 places from #3,063 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 40 boys named Dewayne in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #303, reached in 1962. That year also had the most boys given the name: 651. For comparison, it was #1,581 in 2015 and #451 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dewayne in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 8 babies. In all, 26,598 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 5,903 babies named Dewayne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 634 US boys were named Dewayne; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,056 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dewayne ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #724 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Duane (116,456 babies since 1880) and Dwayne (77,200 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dewain, Dewan and Dewaine are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dewain (800), Dewan (669), Dewaine (576), Dewane (508), Dywane (261), Dewaun (145), Dewone (44), Dywayne (37), Dewyane (21), Dewann (17), Dewyne (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dewayne in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 5 | #724 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,348 | #1,208 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 55 | #2,457 |
| 2024 | — | — | 40 | #3,063 |
| 2023 | — | — | 48 | #2,705 |
| 2022 | — | — | 53 | #2,571 |
| 2021 | — | — | 60 | #2,307 |
| 2020 | — | — | 65 | #2,146 |
| 2019 | — | — | 70 | #2,065 |
| 2018 | — | — | 67 | #2,104 |
| 2017 | — | — | 91 | #1,719 |
| 2016 | — | — | 85 | #1,793 |
| 2015 | — | — | 102 | #1,581 |
| 2014 | — | — | 108 | #1,494 |
| 2013 | — | — | 115 | #1,435 |
| 2012 | — | — | 115 | #1,441 |
| 2011 | — | — | 128 | #1,327 |
| 2010 | — | — | 145 | #1,220 |
| 2009 | — | — | 151 | #1,195 |
| 2008 | — | — | 157 | #1,157 |
| 2007 | — | — | 164 | #1,116 |
| 2006 | — | — | 146 | #1,156 |
| 2005 | — | — | 151 | #1,096 |
| 2004 | — | — | 154 | #1,049 |
| 2003 | — | — | 147 | #1,055 |
| 2002 | — | — | 149 | #1,028 |
| 2001 | — | — | 153 | #999 |
| 2000 | — | — | 184 | #863 |
| 1999 | — | — | 169 | #893 |
| 1998 | — | — | 168 | #864 |
| 1997 | — | — | 173 | #835 |
| 1996 | — | — | 157 | #874 |
| 1995 | — | — | 198 | #765 |
| 1994 | — | — | 177 | #799 |
| 1993 | — | — | 184 | #777 |
| 1992 | — | — | 247 | #663 |
| 1991 | — | — | 265 | #627 |
| 1990 | — | — | 245 | #647 |
| 1989 | — | — | 286 | #578 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,316 | 267 | #567 |
| 1987 | — | — | 304 | #515 |
| 1986 | — | — | 300 | #507 |
| 1985 | — | — | 313 | #490 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,836 | 335 | #461 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,330 | 317 | #469 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,659 | 398 | #420 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,980 | 378 | #431 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,802 | 441 | #391 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,490 | 431 | #387 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,157 | 462 | #360 |
| 1977 | — | — | 526 | #340 |
| 1976 | — | — | 471 | #353 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,659 | 476 | #353 |
| 1974 | — | — | 426 | #369 |
| 1973 | — | — | 520 | #329 |
| 1972 | — | — | 530 | #334 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,772 | 543 | #338 |
| 1970 | — | — | 554 | #343 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,793 | 537 | #337 |
| 1968 | — | — | 524 | #334 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,211 | 511 | #331 |
| 1966 | — | — | 600 | #304 |
| 1965 | — | — | 586 | #315 |
| 1964 | — | — | 611 | #312 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,842 | 650 | #307 |
| 1962 | — | — | 651 | #303 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,002 | 626 | #313 |
| 1960 | — | — | 580 | #324 |
| 1959 | — | — | 500 | #348 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,577 | 461 | #357 |
| 1957 | — | — | 428 | #372 |
| 1956 | — | — | 358 | #400 |
| 1955 | — | — | 319 | #411 |
| 1954 | — | — | 292 | #419 |
| 1953 | — | — | 296 | #403 |
| 1952 | — | — | 290 | #405 |
| 1951 | — | — | 238 | #438 |
| 1950 | — | — | 214 | #451 |
| 1949 | — | — | 203 | #463 |
| 1948 | — | — | 213 | #456 |
| 1947 | — | — | 226 | #445 |
| 1946 | — | — | 188 | #465 |
| 1945 | — | — | 158 | #474 |
| 1944 | — | — | 196 | #436 |
| 1943 | — | — | 163 | #483 |
| 1942 | — | — | 159 | #487 |
| 1941 | — | — | 185 | #430 |
| 1940 | — | — | 156 | #463 |
| 1939 | — | — | 139 | #488 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,946 | 141 | #488 |
| 1937 | — | — | 146 | #462 |
| 1936 | — | — | 165 | #438 |
| 1935 | — | — | 188 | #397 |
| 1934 | — | — | 127 | #518 |
| 1933 | — | — | 121 | #513 |
| 1932 | — | — | 114 | #551 |
| 1931 | — | — | 131 | #501 |
| 1930 | — | — | 76 | #719 |
| 1929 | — | — | 87 | #661 |
| 1928 | — | — | 77 | #733 |
| 1927 | — | — | 67 | #812 |
| 1926 | — | — | 69 | #787 |
| 1925 | — | — | 74 | #768 |
| 1924 | — | — | 70 | #810 |
| 1923 | — | — | 69 | #806 |
| 1922 | — | — | 61 | #885 |
| 1921 | — | — | 53 | #962 |
| 1920 | — | — | 48 | #993 |
| 1919 | — | — | 35 | #1,194 |
| 1918 | — | — | 45 | #999 |
| 1917 | — | — | 28 | #1,303 |
| 1916 | — | — | 25 | #1,385 |
| 1915 | — | — | 26 | #1,314 |
| 1914 | — | — | 13 | #1,802 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #2,931 |
| 1912 | — | — | 8 | #1,924 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).