How Many People Are Named Dewayne?
people named Dewayne are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 16,543 people in the US has this name
Based on 26,598 babies named Dewayne in Social Security records from 1912 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
๐ Rare
Peak Year
655 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
๐ Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of DUANE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Dewayne in English. Counting Dewayne and these spellings together, about 156,934 people alive in the US have the name.
โง Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Dewayne (99.5%) were boys.
๐ฅ Age Distribution
The average person named Dewayne alive today is about 48 years old, and 52% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 37 and 62 in 2025.
๐ Popularity Over Time
Dewayne first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 1963, to 655 babies. In 2025, 55 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2025
๐ Rank History
Dewayne has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #303, in 1962. In 2025 it ranked #2,457.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,457 |
| Best rank | #303 (1962) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #324 in the 1960s |
๐ State-Wise Distribution
People named Dewayne alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Dewayne were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,550 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Dewayne was given 3.4 times as often in Arkansas, 3.1 times in Oklahoma and 3.1 times in Tennessee.
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