girls:
15.8k births since 1880
#1198 (79th percentile)
boys:
7.3k births since 1880
#1387 (70th percentile)
overall:
23.1k births since 1880
#1667 (78th percentile)
The name Dee is the #1,667 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23,100 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,198 (79.0% percentile) for all time with 15,831 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #1,387 (69.8% percentile) for all time with 7,269 births since 1880.
Dee has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Dee is available in 140 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022 (140 years for boys and 124 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dee has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (68.5% of all recorded births). In 2022, 0.0% of babies named Dee were girls.
For girls, Dee reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 52.8% percentile (ranked #365) with 300 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 300 births per million (ranked 52.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
For boys, Dee reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 22.5% percentile (ranked #390) with 136 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 357 births per million (ranked 16.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dee".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Dee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Dee is pronounced as dee, which has 1 syllables.
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