Dedee
Dedee was last recorded in 1984, when 8 babies were given it; 168 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dedee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dedee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,552, in 1984; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1971, the peak
Dedee peaked in 1971, when 15 girls were given it, #3,984 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 8 | #7,552 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,800 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,340 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,054 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,730 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,349 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,984 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,286 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,007 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,267 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 5 | #6,802 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,587 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,924 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,432 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,013 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,777 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,245 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,712 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,008 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dedee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dedee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dedee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dedee, and how old are they?
An estimated 151 Americans named Dedee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 54 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 198 people named Dedee (193 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 156 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 28,411 babies since 1880, Dedee is the fourth most given (<1% of them).
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 Dedee
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 Dedee and names like it
- Compare Dedee and DeeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDedee peaked in 1971.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Dedee.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dedee alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.