Dawnn

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dawnn has been given to 297 babies in the U.S. since 1954. 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 1970, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Dawnn, 1994

1 in 743,000

Dawnn over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dawnn: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dawnn means

Dawnn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dawnn is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 297 girls were recorded with the name Dawnn between 1954 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1970; its best national rank was #3,290 in 1965.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Dawnn?

Dawnn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994: 1 in 743,000; 5 of 3,715,972 births
Among girls only: 1 in 357,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1994: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 515,144 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Dawnn 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 1994 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 515,144 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dawnn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dawnns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dawnn was born before 1969 — so the typical Dawnn is around 56 today.

Median birth year: 1969; About 56 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 48.1%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 297; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (112).

Is Dawnn 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 1970 (17)
Years since peak: 55; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,290; 1965

Spellings of Dawnn

Dawnn is not the most common spelling — Ann is, with 43.9% against Dawnn's 0.03%.

Ann43.9%470,261
Dawn27.0%289,641
Dana18.1%193,555
Danna2.3%25,106
Dayna1.3%14,460
Diann1.1%12,252
Dani0.96%10,339
Deann0.95%10,185

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 Dawnn is used

Across 1910–2025, Dawnn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

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. Dawnn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dawnn 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: —
Best rank ever: #3,290; 1965
Peak year: 1970; 17 that year
First recorded: 1954
Last recorded: 1994
All-time count: 297
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Dawnn

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

Dawsyn Dawnya Dawson Dawana Dawnna Dawnita Dawanda Dawnell Dawt Dawanna Dawan Dawne Dawnetta Dawni Dawnelle Dawna Dawsen Dawnette Dawnisha Dawnne Dawnyel Dawyn Dawnie Dawnielle

Sibling names for Dawnn

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

For a sister

Nicolle Janeen Corinna Marlo Lashawn Shonda Jeana Jeanna

For a brother

Judd Alfonzo Edwardo Shon Brant Scot Bryon Hans

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