Dwayne

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dwayne is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Duane.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 992◐
  • JMJamaica1 in 1.6K
  • CACanada1 in 4.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈58K ●

across 7 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
445 ●

1.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 992 ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

DwayneLatin · English●1.1M records
드웨인Hangul · Korean●0 records
ДуэинCyrillic · Tajik●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Duane.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dwayne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#42155,602985K rec.1 in 6K56KDwayne445
GB United Kingdom#59032,02331K rec.—4Dwayne130
CA Canada#52120,45618K rec.—2Dwayne172
AU Australia#74415,47714K rec.—4Dwayne153
IT Italy—3,5423.7K rec.—1Dwayne25
DE Germany—3,0723K rec.—1Dwayne84
JM Jamaica#122,9133K rec.——Dwayne30
PH Philippines—2,8201.9K rec.——Dwayne61
CO Colombia—2,0512K rec.——Dwayne24
SG Singapore#3251,7631.8K rec.——Dwayne35
AR Argentina—1,0641.1K rec.—2Dwayne19
MX Mexico—1,0201K rec.—1Dwayne21

Roughly 56K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 6K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.1M86%
  • Spanish52K4%
  • 38K3%
  • French11K1%
  • German7.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,098,40986%
Spanish51,7204%
37,8193%
French10,9371%
German7,3411%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dwayne is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name5.1K records spelled Dwayne7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Palestine, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written דוויין, Dwain, Dŵáÿńę

  • Polish given name986 records spelled Dwayne30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Duane, Dwain, Dwane, Дуэйн, Duwayne

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Dwayne is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Irish Gaelic: a little dark one

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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K1920194019601980200020203.5K · 1961

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Dwayne in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1912–2025
Yearrecords
19127
19137
191415
191528
191620
191726
191832
191926
192039
192158
192259
192366
192493
192581
192681
192790
1928104
1929104
1930136
1931147
1932163
1933166
1934199
1935191
1936213
1937201
1938187
1939213
1940231
1941204
1942198
1943196
1944266
1945248
1946303
1947390
1948345
1949362
1950342
1951391
1952401
1953480
1954536
1955588
1956800
19571,036
19581,399
19591,905
19603,037
19613,486
19623,118
19633,136
19642,874
19652,521
19662,265
19672,157
19682,081
19692,113
19702,317
19711,826
19721,594
19731,435
19741,200
19751,248
19761,326
19771,460
19781,237
19791,168
19801,069
19811,010
1982964
1983955
1984861
1985880
1986825
1987802
1988828
1989870
1990830
1991779
1992675
1993590
1994556
1995507
1996470
1997418
1998419
1999364
2000407
2001339
2002323
2003343
2004294
2005339
2006389
2007360
2008347
2009347
2010349
2011321
2012313
2013324
2014246
2015294
2016222
2017225
2018236
2019199
2020181
2021168
2022149
2023140
2024130
2025109

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 114 years between 1912–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Dwayne Hickman, b. 1934D. Richard Hipp, b. 1961D'wayne Wiggins, b. 1961Dwayne McDuffie, b. 1962Dwayne Washington, b. 1964Dwayne Johnson, b. 1972Dwayne De Rosario, b. 1978Lil Wayne, b. 1982Dwayne Bacon, b. 1995XXXTENTACION, b. 1998

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 61 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Dwayne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202056K#836
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025756#102
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024735#1,538
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—701#1,304
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—518#3,138
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020127#836
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025109—
GD GrenadaGrenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 20252025105#53
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)202593#59
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—56#12,590
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202254—
KN St. Kitts & NevisSt Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026202648#63

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 475 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dwayne?
We estimate roughly 58 thousand people bear Dwayne (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Dwayne have the most bearers?
We estimate about 56 thousand people bear Dwayne in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dwayne.
Where is Dwayne most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dwayne is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 992 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Dwayne compared with other names?
In the United States, Dwayne is the 421st most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Dwayne a male or female name?
Dwayne is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Dwayne mean?
Recorded meaning: A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Duane.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dwayne” — the 421st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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