Daune
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Daune has been given to 282 babies in the U.S. since 1933. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1955, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 77% girls, 23% boys all-time.
Babies named Daune, 1979
1 in 665,000
Daune over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Daune over time
In 1979, Daune went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Daune?
Daune had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1979
- 1 in 665,000
- 5 of 3,326,731 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1979
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 461,184 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Daune sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1979 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 461,184 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daune. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Daunes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Daune was born before 1955 — so the typical Daune is around 70 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 31.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 54.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 148
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (68).
Is Daune rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1955 (12)
- Years since peak
- 70
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.3% average annual change
Spellings of Daune
Daune is not the most common spelling — Diane is, with 22.6% against Daune's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Daune around the world
Where Daune ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1966–1966#536in 1966
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Daune by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Daune
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Daune
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.