Dawn
Dawn is a girl name of English origin, meaning First light of day.
What Dawn means
First light of day.
Dawn is short — 4 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.
Where Dawn comes from
English names come from a long layering of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and biblical sources. Many began as surnames, place names, or occupations before they were ever used as first names.
Dawn is recorded as English in origin. Browse other English names.
How popular is Dawn?
You will not find Dawn in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Dawn
We group Dawn under light and brightness and Sky — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Dawn
These share Dawn's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Soleil — The sun.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Aarush — First ray of the sun.
- Aditya — The sun.
- Apollo — God of light, music and the sun.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Elio — The sun.
- Helios — The sun.
- Hinata — Sunny place; toward the sun.
- Icarus — Follower; one who flew to the sun.
- Phoebus — Radiant and shining.
- Sorin — Sun.