How Many People Are Named Dwain?
people named Dwain are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 75,766 people in the US has this name
Based on 7,581 babies named Dwain in Social Security records from 1913 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
๐๐ Very Rare
Peak Year
258 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 Dwain in English. Counting Dwain and these spellings together, about 156,934 people alive in the US have the name.
โง Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Dwain in the records were boys.
๐ฅ Age Distribution
The average person named Dwain alive today is about 59 years old, and 58% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 51 and 70 in 2025.
๐ Popularity Over Time
Dwain first appears in the records in 1913 and was given most often in 1959, to 258 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1913 to 2024
๐ Rank History
Dwain has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #488, in 1959.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #488 (1959) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #569 in the 1950s |
๐ State-Wise Distribution
People named Dwain alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Dwain were born in Texas than in any other state: about 388 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Dwain was given 3.5 times as often in Nebraska, 3 times in Texas and 2.3 times in Louisiana.
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