Dempsey
Dempsey is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 45 births. Its best rank was 579th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 450.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1921108 births
- Best rank
- #579in 1880
- Since 1880
- 4,714people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,208 boys have been named Dempsey in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 108 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 506 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dempsey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 42 | |
| 1890s | 42 | |
| 1900s | 67 | |
| 1910s | 314 | |
| 1920s | 704 | |
| 1930s | 403 | |
| 1940s | 398 | |
| 1950s | 368 | |
| 1960s | 235 | |
| 1970s | 181 | |
| 1980s | 139 | |
| 1990s | 165 | |
| 2000s | 199 | |
| 2010s | 674 | |
| 2020s | 277 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Dempsey was the 609th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Dempsey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Trumanpeak 1945
- Harrispeak 1921
- Lucienpeak 2024
- Hoytpeak 1922
- Lelandpeak 2007
- Leonpeak 1924
- Louiepeak 2024
- Hollispeak 1921
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.