Dawsen
Masculine · “Son of Daw”
Dawsen is given to both — 522 boys and 31 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Dawsen is Dawson respelled, and Dawson is son of Daw — Daw being a medieval English pet form of David. Its American peak is 1999, which is the second season of a television series set on a creek in Massachusetts.
How old is the name Dawsen?
Dawsen first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Dawsen alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 500 people named Dawsen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dawsen most popular?
Dawsen peaked in 1999, reaching #2347 nationally. Today it ranks #5399, 3,052 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
Where it comes from
From Dāwīd to Dawsen
The story of Dawsen
Daw was an ordinary medieval English clipping of David, and it produced the surnames Dawson, Dawes and Dawkins. The surname traveled widely, and the Yukon town of Dawson City took it from a Canadian geologist. As a first name Dawson is an American twentieth-century development, and its rise is unusually easy to date: Dawson's Creek ran from 1998 to 2003 on a national network with a large teenage audience, and the birth records climb sharply in exactly those years. Dawsen and Dawsyn appear as respellings behind the parent name, peaking in 1999.
Meaning
Son of Daw, a pet form of David
From the medieval English personal name Daw, a diminutive of David, with the patronymic -son. David is from Hebrew Dāwīd, generally read as beloved. The reading is settled. The -sen spelling of Dawsen is an American variant with no separate history; -son and -sen are said identically in English.
How the name formed
- Dāwīd
- David
- Daw
- Dawson
Related forms: Dawson · David
Pronouncing Dawsen
DAW-sun
Two syllables, stress on the first. The -sen and -son endings are identical in speech.
Nicknames for Dawsen
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most boys named
- 199938 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2347reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- +6.3%17 in 2025, from 16
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Dawsen in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dawson in English — spelling variant
- David in Hebrew — related form
Dawsens among us
people named Dawsen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 100,475 born in 2025 was named Dawsen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Deo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dawsen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deo climbed just as high around 1924, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deo's path sketches the road Dawsen is walking now.
Dawsen sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Dawsen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dawsen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and connects to one of the most durable names in the world.
- Daw and Dave are both available as short forms.
- Everyone can say it after one hearing.
- Dawson is the standard spelling and will be written for it.
- The television series is a strong and specific association for a whole generation.
- Dawson, Dawsen and Dawsyn are three spellings of one sound.
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Masculine · #5399 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Dawsens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Dawsen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dawsen in 2025?
- Dawsen ranks #5399 among US boy names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dawsen?
- About 1 in every 100,475 US boys born in 2025 was named Dawsen — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dawsen with classmates?
- Dawsen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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