Dee — unisex name

What the Data Says About Dee

The Social Security Administration has registered 15,831 babies named Dee between 1880 and 2012, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 623 babies received it in a single year. Dee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 7,269 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dee performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 4,827 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Dee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,758 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Dee in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dee 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 15,831 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.