Dawn
Dawn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 108 births. Its best rank was 14th, in 1971.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1080.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 197015,681 births
- Best rank
- #14in 1971
- Since 1888
- 290,592people given the name
The story in the numbers
289,552 girls have been named Dawn in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 15,681 births — 0.90% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 108 births in 2024, against 15,681 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1960s alone account for 39%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 27 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,040 boys have also been given it, 0.36% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dawn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 26 | |
| 1900s | 30 | |
| 1910s | 357 | |
| 1920s | 1,464 | |
| 1930s | 3,732 | |
| 1940s | 8,631 | |
| 1950s | 38,899 | |
| 1960s | 114,292 | |
| 1970s | 92,445 | |
| 1980s | 22,406 | |
| 1990s | 4,303 | |
| 2000s | 1,576 | |
| 2010s | 921 | |
| 2020s | 465 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Dawn was the 16th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1970 were Jennifer, Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle and Amy. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Dawn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tinapeak 1968
- Shawnepeak 1969
- Shellypeak 1964
- Trenapeak 1971
- Wendypeak 1967
- Tamalapeak 1971
- Tammipeak 1968
- Shellipeak 1968
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.