Entry № 2350 · English origin

Dawn Dawn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Daybreak (Dawn Wells, Gilligan's Island; Dawn Staley, NCAA coach)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "daybreak (dawn wells, gilligan's island; dawn staley, ncaa coach)".

Dawn is from the Old English dagung — "the first appearance of daylight, daybreak" — the moment of sunrise. Dawn Olivieri — 1923 actress.

Daybreak (Dawn Wells, Gilligan's Island; Dawn Staley, NCAA coach) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Dawn
Transliteration
Dawn
Pronunciation
/ dɔːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dawn stands.

Dawn does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Dawns before her.

Real people
Dawn Staley
American NCAA basketball coach.
born 1970
Dawn Wells
American actress (Gilligan's Island).
1938 – 2020
Dawn French
British comedian.
born 1957
In fiction
Mary Ann Summers
Gilligan's Island.
1964

Names connected to Dawn.

The number behind Dawn.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dawn reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.