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Daun vs Dauna

American parents have registered 805 Dauns since 1880, against 201 Daunas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daun against Dauna, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daun Dauna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 52 years in which either name was published, Daun for 46 years and Dauna for 6 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Daun Dauna
Total US births 805201
Most in one year 4013
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 660150
Median age today 6164
Peak year 19641933
Best rank 2,011th girls2,275th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19301931
Girls / boys 778 / 27201 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Daunas alive today are over 64; half the Dauns are over 61. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daun and Dauna.