Dawson
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#143
down −4 places
2025 births
2,487
down −100 births
All-time births
52,802
5% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1999
- 2,802 births
- Best rank
- #136
- in 1999
- First recorded
- 1885
- #972 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2009
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 129 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19992,802#136Peak
- 20242,587#139
- 20252,487#143
- 20232,451#149
- 20002,312#168
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #136 in 1999 · peak births 2,802 in 1999
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 97% boys■ 3% girls
52,802 boys · 1,397 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Dawson has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.