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Dawna

Girls' name

Dawn with the suffix -a

Dawna has been given to 6,017 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1966, with 264 recorded.

Babies named Dawna, 2023

1 in 663,000

Dawna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dawna: meaning, origin, and history

Dawn with the suffix -a

English

What Dawna means

Dawna is formed from Dawn with the suffix -a.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Dawn + -a in the 20th century.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Dawna (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Dawna is used in English. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dawn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,017 girls were recorded with the name Dawna between 1919 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 264 in 1966; its best national rank was #579 in 1966.

How common is Dawna?

Dawna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dawna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dawna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dawnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dawna was born before 1966 — so the typical Dawna is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,363
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (2,157).

Is Dawna 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
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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 1966 (264)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#579
1966

Spellings of Dawna

Dawna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 25.2% against Dawna's 0.17%.

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.

Where Dawna is used

Across 1910–2025, Dawna was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 38,226 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 7,692
  2. 2Maine1 in 9,091
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 16,667
  4. 4Oregon1 in 16,667
  5. 5Washington1 in 16,667
  6. 6California1 in 20,000
  7. 7Kansas1 in 20,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dawna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dawna around the world

Where Dawna 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.

  • Scotland
    1975–1975
    #322
    in 1975
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dawna by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#579
1966
Peak year
1966
264 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
6,017
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dawna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DawneDawsonDawsynShawnaDawnnTawnaDawanaDawnDawnyaDawannaDawnellDawnitaDawnetteDawnnaDawandaDawnelleLashawnaDawtFawnaDawnmarieDawanDawnettaTashawnaDawni

Names with a curve like Dawna

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dawna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JuliLanetteTeressaTresaKandyLorindaDanitaSherieJacqulineDeannDeedeeGerri

Sibling names for Dawna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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