The map (or Chloropleth) below illustrates current distribution of the family name Dawn in the UK
The data source "British Phone Book" is prone to duplications and already-dead people, which you can investigate for yourself here. Some effort has been made to reduce the level of duplication but please beware. In total the de-duped dataset included 384 unique combinations of people + location.
| Code | Major town | Count |
| AB | Aberdeen | 2 |
| B | Birmingham | 5 |
| BA | Bath | 2 |
| BB | Blackburn | 1 |
| BD | Bradford | 2 |
| BH | Bournemouth | 1 |
| BL | Bolton | 1 |
| BN | Brighton | 4 |
| BS | Bristol | 5 |
| BT | Belfast | 3 |
| CB | Cambridge | 2 |
| CF | Cardiff | 8 |
| CH | Chester | 1 |
| CR | Croydon | 1 |
| CV | Coventry | 3 |
| DA | Dartford | 2 |
| DE | Derby | 22 |
| DG | Dumfries | 1 |
| DH | Durham | 2 |
| DL | Darlington | 4 |
| DN | Doncaster | 9 |
| DY | Dudley | 1 |
| E | East London | 1 |
| EH | Edinburgh | 6 |
| EN | Enfield | 1 |
| EX | Exeter | 1 |
| G | Glasgow | 5 |
| GL | Gloucester | 1 |
| GU | Guildford | 1 |
| GY | Guernsey | 1 |
| HA | Harrow | 1 |
| HG | Harrogate | 1 |
| HR | Hereford | 1 |
| HX | Halifax | 1 |
| IG | Ilford | 1 |
| IP | Ipswich | 1 |
| KA | Kilmarknock | 1 |
| L | Liverpool | 5 |
| LE | Leicester | 10 |
| LL | Llandudno | 1 |
| LN | Lincoln | 6 |
| LS | Leeds | 3 |
| LU | Luton | 1 |
| M | Manchester | 2 |
| ME | Maidstone | 2 |
| ML | Mothewell | 1 |
| N | North London | 1 |
| NE | Newcastle | 3 |
| NG | Nottingham | 58 |
| NN | Northampton | 1 |
| NP | Newport | 4 |
| OX | Oxford | 7 |
| PE | Peterborough | 9 |
| PL | Plymouth | 4 |
| PO | Portsmouth | 2 |
| RG | Reading | 1 |
| RH | Redhill | 5 |
| S | Sheffield | 21 |
| SA | Swansea | 9 |
| SE | South East London | 2 |
| SG | Stevenage | 5 |
| SL | Slough | 2 |
| SN | Swindon | 1 |
| SP | Salisbury (Salop) | 1 |
| SR | Sunderland | 2 |
| ST | Stafford | 4 |
| SW | South West London | 4 |
| SY | Shrewsbury | 2 |
| TA | Taunton | 1 |
| TF | Telford | 3 |
| TN | Tunbridge Wells | 1 |
| TQ | Torquay | 1 |
| TR | Truro | 1 |
| TS | Teeside | 1 |
| TW | Twickhenham | 3 |
| W | West London | 2 |
| WA | Warrington | 2 |
| WF | Wakefield | 5 |
| WR | Worcester | 3 |
| WS | Walsall | 4 |
| YO | Yorkshire | 1 |