Dewan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dewan has been given to 669 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1979, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Dewan, 2024
1 in 478,000
Dewan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dewan?
Dewan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 246,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dewan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dewan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dewans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dewan was born before 1988 — so the typical Dewan is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 24.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 653
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (162).
Is Dewan 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1979 (27)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.5% average annual change
Spellings of Dewan
Dewan is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 20.5% against Dewan's 0.03%.
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 Dewan is used
Across 1910–2025, Dewan was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,363 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Dewan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dewan around the world
Where Dewan 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.
- England & Wales1996–2025#5,137in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Dewan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Dewan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dewan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.