# DeWayne (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dewayne/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 26,598 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 26,491 / 107 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 6 | 5,577 |
| 1961 | 6 | 6,002 |
| 1963 | 5 | 6,842 |
| 1967 | 6 | 6,211 |
| 1969 | 10 | 4,793 |
| 1971 | 7 | 6,772 |
| 1975 | 8 | 6,659 |
| 1978 | 5 | 10,157 |
| 1979 | 8 | 7,490 |
| 1980 | 5 | 10,802 |
| 1981 | 11 | 5,980 |
| 1982 | 8 | 7,659 |
| 1983 | 6 | 9,330 |
| 1984 | 5 | 10,836 |
| 1988 | 5 | 12,316 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 128 | 1,327 |
| 2012 | 115 | 1,441 |
| 2013 | 115 | 1,435 |
| 2014 | 108 | 1,494 |
| 2015 | 102 | 1,581 |
| 2016 | 85 | 1,793 |
| 2017 | 91 | 1,719 |
| 2018 | 67 | 2,104 |
| 2019 | 70 | 2,065 |
| 2020 | 65 | 2,146 |
| 2021 | 60 | 2,307 |
| 2022 | 53 | 2,571 |
| 2023 | 48 | 2,705 |
| 2024 | 40 | 3,063 |
| 2025 | 55 | 2,457 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 3 | 2,943 |
| 2001 | 4 | 2,587 |

## People named DeWayne

- Dewayne Dedmon, American basketball player (born 1989)
- DeWayne McKnight, American guitarist
- Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter (1938–2008)
- Moneybagg Yo, American rapper from Tennessee
- Ron Holland, American basketball player (born 2005)
- Victor Rudd, American basketball player (born 1991)
- Michael Tait, American contemporary Christian music artist
- Joel Berry II, American basketball player (born 1995)
- D.J. Stewart Jr., American basketball player (born 1999)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.