Dewey

7 variations

girls:

568 births since 1897

#3801 (13th percentile)

boys:

35.5k births since 1887

#574 (85th percentile)

overall:

36k births since 1887

#1221 (80th percentile)

Popularity of Dewey's 7 Variations

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the 7 variations of "Dewey". These 7 different ways to spell Dewey have been grouped together based on pronunciation by a model that updates daily in response to your feedback.

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This table provides detailed name popularity stats for 7 spelling variations of Dewey based on Social Security card applications in the United States. Alternate spellings are only included if they were used at least 5 times in a single year.

This table can be sorted by clicking on the column headers.

34.3k
1,115
1898
1887
92.1%
2.0%
#19
#893
821
59
1984
1978
7.9%
0.0%
#634
#911
547
104
1898
1897
28.7%
#242
239
18
1928
1914
2.4%
#456
75
8
1918
1918
0.6%
#521
21
6
1898
1898
0.4%
#229
16
11
1898
1898
1.8%
#333
5
5
1977
1977
0.0%
#768
5
5
1926
1926
0.0%
#551

The popularity percentiles and rank data in the table above are computed for each spelling variation individually, compared against all other individual spellings. This is different from the header on this page and our ranking pages, which compare popularity of the grouped spellings as a whole.

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All Spelling Variations of Dewey

The 7 different ways to spell Dewey, sorted by popularity: