Dea — #6390 US girls' name
1,803 babies named Dea in U.S. Social Security records since 1901, with the highest year being 1963. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 64% of names given to girls today.
19% of everyone ever named Dea was born in this single decade.
45 babies were named Dea in 1963 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dea
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,803 babies named Dea between 1901 and 2024, spanning 124 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dea currently holds the #6390 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1963, when 45 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dea performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 340 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Dea shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 77 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Dea in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dea 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 1,803 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.
Dea at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dea popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1901
- Peak year (1963)
- 45
- Annual births at peak — across 124 years of records
Currently ranks #6390 among girls.
1,803 total births across 124 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1963 with 45 births in a single year.
Dea popularity over time — boys
17 total births recorded since 1921 (Dea as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Dea accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Dea by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 340 births that decade — 19% of Dea's all-time total
Dea decade highlights
- Peak decade 340 births
- Runner-up 273 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Dea's strongest decade
340 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 19% of all-time use.
Dea by state
Where Dea concentrates geographically — total births since 1901
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 77 | 4.3% |
| #2 | California | | 32 | 1.8% |
| #3 | Texas | | 15 | 0.8% |
| #4 | Ohio | | 7 | 0.4% |
| #5 | Oklahoma | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #6 | Oregon | | 5 | 0.3% |
77 of 1,803 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 4.3% of nationwide
- California 1.8% of nationwide
- Texas 0.8% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.4% of nationwide
- Oklahoma 0.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 4.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1901–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.