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Dawna

Rooted in English, Dawna is a girl's name that means "English, daybreak". It belongs mostly to the 1960s at this point. These days, it is one of the rarer names on record. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.

EtymologyVariant of Dawn
EnglishEnglish – "daybreak"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
6
1920s
93
1930s
180
1940s
375
1950s
1,112
1960s
2,156
1970s
1,159
1980s
575
1990s
248
2000s
75
2010s
31
Peaked in the 1960s · 6,010 total U.S. births since 1900