De — boys' name

What the Data Says About De

The Social Security Administration has registered 681 babies named De between 1914 and 2011, spanning 98 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, De currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 46 babies received it in a single year. De is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 641 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that De performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 341 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, De shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 96 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by District of Columbia and Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list De in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for De in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 681 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.