Dawson
Dawson is ranked 139th among boys in 2024 (2,576 births). Its best rank was 136th, in 1999.
- Rank in 2024
- #139up 10 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,5760.15% of boys
- Peak year
- 19992,802 births
- Best rank
- #136in 1999
- Since 1885
- 51,610people given the name
The story in the numbers
50,294 boys have been named Dawson in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 2,802 births — 0.15% of all boys recorded that year.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 1999, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2000s alone account for 34%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,316 girls have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dawson | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 26 | |
| 1890s | 19 | |
| 1900s | 38 | |
| 1910s | 220 | |
| 1920s | 304 | |
| 1930s | 231 | |
| 1940s | 264 | |
| 1950s | 233 | |
| 1960s | 159 | |
| 1970s | 211 | |
| 1980s | 355 | |
| 1990s | 5,750 | |
| 2000s | 16,868 | |
| 2010s | 14,799 | |
| 2020s | 10,817 |
In 1999, its biggest year
Dawson was the 136th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1999 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Nicholas. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Dawson
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kolbepeak 2001
- Kobipeak 2000
- Crosspeak 2021
- Kadepeak 2024
- Abrarpeak 2018
- Tahjpeak 1998
- Canyonpeak 2021
- Harispeak 2002
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.