girls:
547 births since 1897
#5169 (10th percentile)
boys:
34.3k births since 1887
#612 (87th percentile)
overall:
34.9k births since 1887
#1345 (83rd percentile)
The name Dewey is the #1,345 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 34,860 recorded births since 1887. This represents the 82.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #612 (86.7% percentile) for all time with 34,313 births since 1887. For girls, it ranks #5,169 (9.5% percentile) for all time with 547 births since 1897.
Dewey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1887 (1887 for boys and 1897 for girls).
The name Dewey has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dewey reached its peak popularity in 1898, achieving the 92.1% percentile (ranked #19) with 8,441 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 8,441 births per million (ranked 92.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dewey ranks #893 for boys (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 0.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dewey reached its peak popularity in 1898, achieving the 28.7% percentile (ranked #242) with 379 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 379 births per million (ranked 28.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1956.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dewey".
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