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Dawson name popularity
Dawson has been given to 54,199 babies in the United States since 1885.
It peaked in 1999, when 2,834 babies got the name, and its best rank was #242 in 2024.
In 2025, 2,568 babies were named Dawson (#255 in the country), 9% below the peak. That is up 55% from 2015.
About 3% of babies named Dawson were girls and 97% were boys.
An estimated 53K people named Dawson are alive in the US today, with a median age of 14.
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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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