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Dwane

Boys' name

Black, dark, through Dwayne

Dwane has been given to 3,170 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1963, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Dwane, 2017

1 in 511,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dwane: meaning, origin, and history

Black, dark, through Dwayne

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dwane means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Dwane is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dwayne and Duane.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,170 boys were recorded with the name Dwane between 1915 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 102 in 1963; its best national rank was #761 in 1963.

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 Dwane?

Dwane 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 511,000
7 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 264,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
354,210 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dwane 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 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dwane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dwanes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dwane was born before 1960 — so the typical Dwane is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,179
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (720).

Is Dwane 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 1963 (102)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#761
1963

Spellings of Dwane

Dwane is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 19.2% against Dwane'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 Dwane is used

Across 1910–2025, Dwane was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 200,713 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 50,000
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Iowa1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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

Dwane around the world

Where Dwane 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.

  • Ireland
    1978–1997
    #382
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1961–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Dwane

People whose public names include Dwane, 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.

Dwane in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dwane. Linked forms have their own page here.

DuaneDwayne

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dwane 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
#761
1963
Peak year
1963
102 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
3,170
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dwane

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

DeaneThaneBlaneKeaneDwainDwaineDwanBaneZhaneDianeZidaneXaneKaneDwayneIoaneAntwaneSloaneCaneOusmaneDwyaneJaneDaneDelaneRane

Names with a curve like Dwane

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

JameSalRodericLennieDaryleKiethKenneyLenWendallRolfAlphonzoLesley

Sibling names for Dwane

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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