Dede
Dede was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 1,613 Americans have been recorded with it between 1933 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Dede and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 56 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dede by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dede mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dede is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dede?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,900, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
113 babies in 1961, the peak
Dede peaked in 1961, when 113 girls were given it, #1,024 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #15,900 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,823 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,608 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,077 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,648 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,491 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,152 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,060 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,798 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,624 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 14 | #5,032 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,575 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,269 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,308 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,398 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,707 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,298 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,308 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,183 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,322 | 21.0 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,809 | 29.5 |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,052 | 22.9 |
| 1969 | 52 | #1,672 | 30.8 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,861 | 25.0 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,760 | 26.0 |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,771 | 24.2 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,805 | 22.7 |
| 1964 | 70 | #1,344 | 36.9 |
| 1963 | 71 | #1,308 | 36.8 |
| 1962 | 83 | #1,214 | 42.2 |
| 1961 | 113 | #1,024 | 56.0 |
| 1960 | 81 | #1,211 | 40.1 |
| 1959 | 75 | #1,233 | 37.1 |
| 1958 | 65 | #1,311 | 32.3 |
| 1957 | 52 | #1,474 | 25.4 |
| 1956 | 53 | #1,457 | 26.4 |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,519 | 23.0 |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,588 | 21.1 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,712 | 18.1 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,584 | 20.0 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,071 | 12.8 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,686 | 18.1 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,971 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,963 | 14.1 |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,051 | 13.0 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,766 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,630 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,183 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,084 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,225 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,874 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,781 | 8.7 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,462 | 4.5 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,421 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,354 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dede a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dede has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dede: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dede, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 1,613 Americans ever recorded as Dede. The median Dede alive today is 64 years old; half are between 56 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 1,718 people named Dede (1,575 women and girls, 143 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,422 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 32 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 775 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 470 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 45 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 21 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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).
Where are babies named Dede born?
The states with the most babies named Dede are California, Texas and Florida, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 233 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 99 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Dede is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dede is most over-represented in California: since 1933 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dede with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,649 babies since 1880, Dede is the fourth most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 44 babies recorded by SSA was a Dede (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Dede
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 Dede and names like it
- Compare Dede and DeeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDede peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dede since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Dede.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dede alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.