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Dauna vs Daunte

American parents have registered 1,568 Dauntes since 1880, against 201 Daunas. Daunte is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dauna against Daunte, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dauna Daunte

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 74 years in which either name was published, Daunte for 51 years and Dauna for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Dauna Daunte
Total US births 2011,568
Most in one year 13159
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 1501,500
Median age today 6423
Peak year 19332001
Best rank 2,275th girls968th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked12,008th
First recorded 19311974
Girls / boys 201 / 00 / 1,568

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 Dauntes are over 23. That is 41 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: Dauna and Daunte.