Dwaine
Dwaine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 703rd, in 1951.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1959112 births
- Best rank
- #703in 1951
- Since 1916
- 4,361people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,361 boys have been named Dwaine in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 112 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1950s alone account for 21%. It has spent 42 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dwaine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 38 | |
| 1920s | 384 | |
| 1930s | 618 | |
| 1940s | 549 | |
| 1950s | 930 | |
| 1960s | 759 | |
| 1970s | 488 | |
| 1980s | 266 | |
| 1990s | 166 | |
| 2000s | 69 | |
| 2010s | 76 | |
| 2020s | 18 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Dwaine was the 722nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Dwaine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dwainpeak 1959
- Duanepeak 1959
- Duwaynepeak 1960
- Kennithpeak 1956
- Dwanepeak 1963
- Derylpeak 1957
- Darrelpeak 1960
- Theodispeak 1955
Other spellings in the data
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.