How popular is the name Dawn?

Dawn ranks 150th among girls' names in US records, with 291,694 births since 1888. Over the past decade it accounts for 938.

Is Dawn a unisex name?

No. Dawn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1970, when 15,727 children were given the name. It has been in use for 137 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Daun. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#150 of girl names

Pronounced D AO1 N (ARPABET)

Dawn is a girls' name, and first appears in 1888. It has been given to 291,694 children — the 150th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 1970, when 15,727 children were given it.

Daun is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.

1970Girls: 15,727Boys: 43

These spellings sound identical to Dawn and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

How popular is the name Dawn?: Dawn ranks 150th among girls' names in US records, with 291,694 births since 1888. Over the past decade it accounts for 938.
Is Dawn a unisex name?: No. Dawn is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Dawn most popular?: 1970, when 15,727 children were given the name. It has been in use for 137 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Dawn spelled?: Daun. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.