Meaning not yet researched.
Dwayne: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 109 in 2025. Its best rank was #111 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #111 in 1961; #1,565 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dwayne in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,565 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #111.
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Dwayne: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 109 boys in 2025. Peak: #111 in 1961 · most boys in one year: 3,486 (1961).
In 2025, 109 US boys were named Dwayne, making it the 1,565th most common boys’ name of the year, down 147 places from #1,418 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 130 boys named Dwayne in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #111, reached in 1961. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,486. For comparison, it was #791 in 2015 and #366 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dwayne in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 7 babies. In all, 77,200 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 26,950 babies named Dwayne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,759 US boys were named Dwayne; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 236. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,670 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dwayne ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #612 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), Dewey (34,920 babies since 1880), Dewayne (26,598 babies since 1880) and Dwain (7,581 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dwayn, Dwaun and Dwann 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: Dwayn (72), Dwaun (48), Dwann (25).
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 Dwayne 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 7 | #612 | #469 |
| Maryland | 5 | #838 | #429 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #869 | #595 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,003 | #684 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,053 | #682 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,075 | #498 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,153 | #566 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,329 | #804 |
| Texas | 8 | #1,955 | #1,075 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 109 | #1,565 |
| 2024 | — | — | 130 | #1,418 |
| 2023 | — | — | 140 | #1,350 |
| 2022 | — | — | 149 | #1,286 |
| 2021 | — | — | 168 | #1,174 |
| 2020 | — | — | 181 | #1,096 |
| 2019 | — | — | 199 | #1,040 |
| 2018 | — | — | 236 | #912 |
| 2017 | — | — | 225 | #930 |
| 2016 | — | — | 222 | #942 |
| 2015 | — | — | 294 | #791 |
| 2014 | — | — | 246 | #882 |
| 2013 | — | — | 324 | #720 |
| 2012 | — | — | 313 | #740 |
| 2011 | — | — | 321 | #713 |
| 2010 | — | — | 349 | #678 |
| 2009 | — | — | 347 | #694 |
| 2008 | — | — | 347 | #690 |
| 2007 | — | — | 360 | #666 |
| 2006 | — | — | 389 | #613 |
| 2005 | — | — | 339 | #644 |
| 2004 | — | — | 294 | #685 |
| 2003 | — | — | 343 | #609 |
| 2002 | — | — | 323 | #615 |
| 2001 | — | — | 339 | #589 |
| 2000 | — | — | 407 | #537 |
| 1999 | — | — | 364 | #551 |
| 1998 | — | — | 419 | #509 |
| 1997 | — | — | 418 | #498 |
| 1996 | — | — | 470 | #459 |
| 1995 | — | — | 507 | #449 |
| 1994 | — | — | 556 | #410 |
| 1993 | — | — | 590 | #389 |
| 1992 | — | — | 675 | #352 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,596 | 779 | #322 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,533 | 830 | #308 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,233 | 870 | #284 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,279 | 828 | #282 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,445 | 802 | #275 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,590 | 825 | #265 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,595 | 880 | #257 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,291 | 861 | #253 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,861 | 955 | #235 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,639 | 964 | #241 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,360 | 1,010 | #232 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,314 | 1,069 | #224 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,278 | 1,168 | #203 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,658 | 1,237 | #192 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,283 | 1,460 | #163 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,700 | 1,326 | #175 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,664 | 1,248 | #181 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,742 | 1,200 | #188 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,425 | 1,435 | #167 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,874 | 1,594 | #162 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,164 | 1,826 | #157 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,240 | 2,317 | #141 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,041 | 2,113 | #144 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,360 | 2,081 | #137 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,377 | 2,157 | #136 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,593 | 2,265 | #133 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,451 | 2,521 | #126 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,846 | 2,874 | #120 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,085 | 3,136 | #115 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,070 | 3,118 | #119 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,872 | 3,486 | #111 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,671 | 3,037 | #123 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,102 | 1,905 | #165 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,351 | 1,399 | #200 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,638 | 1,036 | #239 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,468 | 800 | #257 |
| 1955 | — | — | 588 | #299 |
| 1954 | — | — | 536 | #311 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,906 | 480 | #321 |
| 1952 | — | — | 401 | #344 |
| 1951 | — | — | 391 | #346 |
| 1950 | — | — | 342 | #366 |
| 1949 | — | — | 362 | #354 |
| 1948 | — | — | 345 | #364 |
| 1947 | — | — | 390 | #346 |
| 1946 | — | — | 303 | #373 |
| 1945 | — | — | 248 | #377 |
| 1944 | — | — | 266 | #370 |
| 1943 | — | — | 196 | #452 |
| 1942 | — | — | 198 | #440 |
| 1941 | — | — | 204 | #411 |
| 1940 | — | — | 231 | #375 |
| 1939 | — | — | 213 | #386 |
| 1938 | — | — | 187 | #416 |
| 1937 | — | — | 201 | #389 |
| 1936 | — | — | 213 | #375 |
| 1935 | — | — | 191 | #395 |
| 1934 | — | — | 199 | #389 |
| 1933 | — | — | 166 | #427 |
| 1932 | — | — | 163 | #442 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,998 | 147 | #467 |
| 1930 | — | — | 136 | #512 |
| 1929 | — | — | 104 | #592 |
| 1928 | — | — | 104 | #605 |
| 1927 | — | — | 90 | #678 |
| 1926 | — | — | 81 | #710 |
| 1925 | — | — | 81 | #717 |
| 1924 | — | — | 93 | #671 |
| 1923 | — | — | 66 | #835 |
| 1922 | — | — | 59 | #909 |
| 1921 | — | — | 58 | #924 |
| 1920 | — | — | 39 | #1,142 |
| 1919 | — | — | 26 | #1,419 |
| 1918 | — | — | 32 | #1,236 |
| 1917 | — | — | 26 | #1,375 |
| 1916 | — | — | 20 | #1,606 |
| 1915 | — | — | 28 | #1,244 |
| 1914 | — | — | 15 | #1,629 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,326 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,101 |
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).