US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE DAWN

Same rise and fall as Dawn, around the same years.

WHERE DAWN IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Dawn ranked highest in Illinois (#1,759) and lowest in Texas (#3,229). 44 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Dawn name popularity

Dawn has been given to 290,680 babies in the United States since 1888.

It peaked in 1970, when 15,724 babies got the name, and its best rank was #43 in 1971.

In 2025, 85 babies were named Dawn (#3,937 in the country), 99.4% below the peak. That is down 14% from 2015.

Almost every Dawn is a girl.

An estimated 254K people named Dawn are alive in the US today, with a median age of 57.

It was a top-100 name in 17 of the 146 years on record.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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