Dea
Dea was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,595 among girls’ names; 1,842 Americans have been recorded with it since 1901 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,530 Americans named Dea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 22 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dea?
#5,595 among girls’ names, 2025
Dea rose from #5,702 in 2015 to #5,595 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.9 to 13.7 per million.
45 babies in 1963, the peak
Dea peaked in 1963, when 45 girls were given it, #1,718 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,595 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,458 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,730 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,270 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,141 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,731 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,197 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,316 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,908 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,668 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,702 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,840 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,241 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,222 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,195 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,984 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,877 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,869 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,945 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,933 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,336 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,488 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,664 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,204 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,694 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,156 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,911 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,024 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,849 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,942 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,281 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,027 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,526 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,485 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,203 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,756 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,915 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,583 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,427 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,756 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,977 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,807 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,889 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,528 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,685 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,697 | 20.2 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,622 | 20.9 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,301 | 24.6 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,695 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,588 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,022 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,321 | 21.0 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,814 | 15.0 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,952 | 13.2 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,362 | 17.8 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,377 | 16.5 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,087 | 19.4 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,892 | 21.9 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,120 | 17.6 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,805 | 22.2 |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,718 | 23.3 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,271 | 14.2 |
| 1961 | 38 | #1,873 | 18.8 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,109 | 14.8 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,854 | 17.8 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,682 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,685 | 20.1 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,550 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,916 | 15.9 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,462 | 10.3 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,937 | 14.9 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,216 | 11.9 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,603 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,573 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,225 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,513 | 9.4 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,504 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,244 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,747 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,652 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,364 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,696 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,202 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,273 | 7.0 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,934 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,596 | 10.3 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,353 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,336 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,280 | 7.5 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,722 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,493 | 6.9 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,244 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,066 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,436 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,113 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,509 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,372 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,300 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,208 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,628 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,437 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,743 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,289 | 8.0 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,739 | 20.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dea has been given almost only to girls: 17 boys in 105 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dea, and how old are they?
1,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 1,842 Americans ever recorded as Dea. The median Dea alive today is 49 years old; half are between 22 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 1,846 people named Dea (1,709 women and girls, 137 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,496 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dea rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 43 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 396 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 425 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 184 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 247 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 233 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 27,231 babies since 1880, Dea is the second most given (6.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 49 babies (45%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dea
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dea and names like it
- Compare Dea and DeeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDea peaked in 1963.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dea since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Dea.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dea alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.