Dee
Dee is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 381st, in 1962.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1961623 births
- Best rank
- #381in 1962
- Since 1880
- 23,100people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,831 girls have been named Dee in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 623 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 623 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1960s alone account for 30%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Dee is used for both sexes: 31% of its bearers are boys (7,269), most of them born around 1919.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dee | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 86 | |
| 1890s | 86 | |
| 1900s | 126 | |
| 1910s | 302 | |
| 1920s | 401 | |
| 1930s | 836 | |
| 1940s | 2,547 | |
| 1950s | 4,327 | |
| 1960s | 4,827 | |
| 1970s | 1,585 | |
| 1980s | 509 | |
| 1990s | 158 | |
| 2000s | 29 | |
| 2010s | 12 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Dee was the 387th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Dee
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sheilapeak 1962
- Maryjopeak 1960
- Patricapeak 1962
- Paulapeak 1963
- Loreenpeak 1964
- Nannettepeak 1963
- Annettepeak 1960
- Dorindapeak 1957
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.