Dawon
Dawon reached its high-water mark in 1990 at number 2,695, and has been recorded 552 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 530 Dawons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Dawon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 552
- Estimated living today
- 530
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 2,695th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1971
How old the living Dawons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 552 babies given the name since 1971, about 530 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Dawons
- Dawon (born 1997)South Korean singer and actress
- Dawon Kahng (1931–1992)South Korean engineer
People named Dawon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dawon is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular boys’ names the year Dawon peaked:
Related names
Dawon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.