Dempsey — #2829 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dempsey

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,208 babies named Dempsey between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dempsey currently holds the #2829 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 108 babies received it in a single year. Dempsey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 506 additional births since 1920.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dempsey performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 704 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Dempsey shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 191 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Dempsey in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dempsey 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 4,208 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.