Duwayne
Duwayne is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 743rd, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196082 births
- Best rank
- #743in 1935
- Since 1916
- 3,601people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,601 boys have been named Duwayne in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 82 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 82 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 18%. It has spent 40 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Duwayne | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 35 | |
| 1920s | 259 | |
| 1930s | 563 | |
| 1940s | 587 | |
| 1950s | 644 | |
| 1960s | 639 | |
| 1970s | 394 | |
| 1980s | 202 | |
| 1990s | 132 | |
| 2000s | 93 | |
| 2010s | 53 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Duwayne was the 836th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Duwayne
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Duanepeak 1959
- Dwainepeak 1959
- Kennithpeak 1956
- Darrelpeak 1960
- Dwainpeak 1959
- Lyndellpeak 1942
- Derrelpeak 1988
- Theodispeak 1955
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.