Dwayne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Duane
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dwejn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dwayne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 24th most common given name.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 4K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 4.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 494 (measured from records)
- 1 in 992 (inferred from the name graph)
≈320,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Duane.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dwayne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Dwayne | 15 |
| US United States | #432 | 55,729 | 1 in 6K | 56K | Dwayne | 494 |
| GB United Kingdom | #614 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 4 | Dwayne | 175 |
| CA Canada | #476 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 2 | Dwayne | 218 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Dwayne | 25 |
| JM Jamaica | #24 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Dwayne | 30 |
| NZ New Zealand | #388 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 10 | Dwayne | 77 |
| GY Guyana | — | 756 | 1 in 992 | 756 | — | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dwayne is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Irish Gaelic: a little dark one
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dwayne Hickmanb. 1934USAmerican actor (1934–2022)
- D. Richard Hippb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican software developer
- D'wayne Wigginsb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Dwayne McDuffieb. 1962USComic book and television writer
- Dwayne Washingtonb. 1964USAmerican basketball player (1964–2016)
- Dwayne Johnsonb. 1972USAmerican actor and professional wrestler (born 1972)
- Dwayne De Rosariob. 1978CACanadian soccer player
- Lil Wayneb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and singer
- Dwayne Baconb. 1995USAmerican basketball player (born 1995)
- XXXTENTACIONb. 1998USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper (1998–2018)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 56K | #836 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 756 | #102 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 127 | #836 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 109 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 13 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2013 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1991 | 4 | #324 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 2 | #1,520 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1 | #9,890 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dwayne mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Duane. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Dwayne a male or female name?
- Dwayne is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Dwayne?
- In the etymology graph, Duane, DeWayne and Devin are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Dwayne?
- A machine transcription gives /dwejn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dwayne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 325 thousand people named Dwayne in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dwayne.
- Where is Dwayne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dwayne is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 992 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dwayne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 55,729 people named Dwayne in 2020, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Dwayne compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Dwayne is the 24th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dwayneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dwayne” — the 24th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.