Dawsyn
Masculine · “son of Daw”
Dawsyn is given to both — 582 boys and 1,121 girls since 1880. See Dawsyn as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Dawson means son of Daw, and Daw was how medieval England shortened David: a pet form so ordinary that it produced a surname and then vanished from speech entirely. The Hebrew name behind it belongs to a shepherd who became a king, and it means beloved.
How old is the name Dawsyn?
Dawsyn first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Dawsyn is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Dawsyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dawsyn most popular?
Dawsyn peaked in 2019, reaching #2656 nationally. Today it ranks #4857, 2,201 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From David to Dawsyn
The story of Dawsyn
Medieval English shortened names hard and then built surnames from the results, which is why so many English family names come from forms nobody says any more: Dawson from David, Hobson from Robert, Hodge from Roger. Dawson has been an English surname since the fourteenth century and crossed to America early. It became a first name in the nineteen-nineties, helped by a television series, and the -syn respelling belongs to the two-thousands, when American parents were rewriting the ending of every -son name they used.
Meaning
son of Daw, a medieval form of David
Middle English Daw was a pet form of David, from Hebrew David, generally read as beloved. The surname Dawson is a patronymic built on that pet form, in the same way as Dawkins and Dawes.
How the name formed
- David
- Daw
- Dawson
- Dawsyn
Related forms: Dawson · David
Pronouncing Dawsyn
DAW-sun
Two syllables, stress in front. The y changes nothing about the sound.
Nicknames for Dawsyn
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
- 201948 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2656reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- −25.9%20 in 2025, from 27
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.
Dawsyn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dawson in English — spelling variant
- David in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida.
Dawsyns among us
people named Dawsyn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 85,404 born in 2025 was named Dawsyn
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 Eutimio test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dawsyn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Eutimio climbed just as high around 1941, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Eutimio's path sketches the road Dawsyn is walking now.
Dawsyn 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
Dawsyn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dawsyn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries a documented line back to David, which very few surname-names manage so cleanly.
- Daws works as a short form and is easy for other children.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English.
- Dawson is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected constantly.
- The -syn ending places the name firmly in the last twenty years.
- It is used for both sexes now, so paperwork does not always guess right.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dawsyns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Dawsyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dawsyn in 2025?
- Dawsyn ranks #4857 among US boy names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dawsyn?
- About 1 in every 85,404 US boys born in 2025 was named Dawsyn — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dawsyn with classmates?
- Dawsyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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