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Duwayne

Boys' name

Black, dark, through Duane

Duwayne has been given to 3,601 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1960, with 82 recorded.

Babies named Duwayne, 2017

1 in 596,000

Duwayne over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Duwayne: meaning, origin, and history

Black, dark, through Duane

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Duwayne means

Duwayne belongs to the name family reached through Duwayne → Duane. Its meaning is “black, dark”.

Origin, language, and formation

Duwayne is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Duane.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,601 boys were recorded with the name Duwayne between 1916 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 82 in 1960; its best national rank was #743 in 1935.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Duwayne?

Duwayne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Duwayne sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Duwayne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Duwaynes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Duwayne was born before 1955 — so the typical Duwayne is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,157
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1950s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (644).

Is Duwayne 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 1960 (82)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#743
1935

Spellings of Duwayne

Duwayne is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 59.8% against Duwayne's 0.61%.

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 Duwayne is used

Across 1910–2025, Duwayne was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 65,518 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 5,556
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 7,143
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 7,692
  4. 4South Dakota1 in 25,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 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. Duwayne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Duwayne

People whose public names include Duwayne, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Duwayne by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#743
1935
Peak year
1960
82 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
3,601
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Duwayne

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

TremayneBlayneDayneThayneShayneLawayneKayneDewayneDawayneRyneRaynePayneZayneLayneDuwardBayneCheyneShyneLemoyneCayneDwayneJermayneDuwaneXayne

Names with a curve like Duwayne

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

JameDennieGaylonSalVernellCurtissWallyWindellNancyRolfTheodisMel

Sibling names for Duwayne

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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