Dewey

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dewey".

1887 2023 18872023

Key Statistics

Total Births
547
Peak Births
104
Peak Year
1898
First Recorded
1897
Peak Percentile
28.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#242
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
34,313
Peak Births
1,115
Peak Year
1898
First Recorded
1887
Peak Percentile
92.1%
Current Percentile
2.0%
Peak Rank
#19
Current Rank
#893
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Dewey

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Dewey. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Dewey is pronounced as DUE-ee.

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DUE-ee (2 syllables)
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100.0% confidence
D UW1 IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Dewey. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Dewey, please vote using the thumbs up button.

dee (1 syllable)
2 names 1.4k births
D IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

due-AH (2 syllables)
2 names 618 births
D UW0 AA1

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D UW1 IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.