Deema
Deema was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,582 among girls’ names; 637 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deema by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deema?
#7,582 among girls’ names, 2025
Deema fell from #4,518 in 2015 to #7,582 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 8.7 per million.
35 babies in 2016, the peak
Deema peaked in 2016, when 35 girls were given it, #4,183 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,582 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,665 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,586 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,272 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,269 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,522 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,682 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,201 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,316 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,183 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,518 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,348 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,174 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,939 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,303 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,021 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,020 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,842 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,693 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,573 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,609 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,378 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,198 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,724 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,317 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,326 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,844 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,208 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,243 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,718 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,733 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,284 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,793 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,146 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,118 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,493 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,180 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,685 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deema a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deema has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deema: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deema, and how old are they?
An estimated 631 Americans named Deema and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 594 people named Deema (586 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 507 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 17,987 babies since 1880, Deema is the fifth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 845 babies (1.7%), the second 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 Deema
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 Deema and names like it
- Compare Deema and DemiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deema since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Deema.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Deema alive today were born 2013-2025.
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