Dawsen
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- DAW-son
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #5,397 for boys
Dawsen is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “son of Daw”. In 2025 it ranked 5,397th for boys in the US (17 babies).
What does Dawsen mean?
English: spelling of Dawson; English surname
“son of Daw”
An English surname meaning son of Daw, a medieval pet form of David.
Meaning borrowed from Dawson.
Is Dawsen a girl's or a boy's name?
Dawsen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dawsen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,397among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 17about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 14% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 17 boys in the US were named Dawsen, making it the 5,397th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,231st. Its busiest year was 1999, with 38 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the boys named Dawsen in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,524 boys in the US were given Dawsen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #161, up from #5,397 for this spelling alone.
In 2019, 23% of the babies named Dawsen in the US were girls.
Dawsen in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,397 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,655 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,661 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,015 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,693 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,231 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,333 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,316 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,220 |
| 2016 | 19 | #4,941 |
| 2015 | 18 | #5,056 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,303 |
| 2013 | 18 | #4,978 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,030 |
| 2011 | 18 | #4,981 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,475 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,432 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,244 |
| 2007 | 18 | #4,994 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,366 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,628 |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,921 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,833 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,496 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,056 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,144 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,344 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,482 |
Names like Dawsen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Deacon Kayden Aiden Brayden Declan Raiden Boden Camden Cannon Braylen Rayden Ronan
Other spellings of Dawsen
Names related to Dawsen
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Dawsen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dawsen, updated 20 October 2026.