Dede

Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306

Peak · girls
1961 · 113 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,613
since 1933

Dede over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Dede has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201933peak #1,023, 1961girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2022#15,3065
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2006#17,1685
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2004#14,1796
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2002#15,4325
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2000#15,0315
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1990#12,9585
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1987#9,8256
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1985#10,6775
1984#10,4225
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1982#5,53412
1981#4,96314
1980#7,4188
1979#4,23117
1978#4,24216
1977#3,36622
1976#3,67818
1975#3,25921
1974#2,29034
1973#2,17136
1972#2,31132
1971#1,80549
1970#2,04340
1969#1,66752
1968#1,85541
1967#1,75143
1966#1,76641
1965#1,80140
1964#1,34470
1963#1,30571
1962#1,21283
1961#1,023113
1960#1,21281
1959#1,23075
1958#1,31065
1957#1,47452
1956#1,45353
1955#1,51645
1954#1,58541
1953#1,70734
1952#1,57837
1951#2,06423
1950#1,67931
1949#1,96724
1948#1,95324
1947#2,04523
1946#2,73913
1945#2,59812
1944#3,1399
1943#3,04010
1942#4,1246
1941#2,84610
1940#2,73710
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1938#4,3425
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1933#4,2185
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First appearance
1933

The first year at least five girls were named Dede! It came in at #4,218, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1933–1939, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Dede is popular in 1933

No state had 5 or more girls named Dede in 1933, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Dede
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2022
Rise & fade · girls
28 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1933
  • Peaked 1961 at #1,023 (113 births)
  • Births halved by 1965, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 17,863
  • Highest: 1 in 17,863 girls born in 1961 were named Dede (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 328,026 girls born in 2022 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 39.4% of all girls named Dede (635) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s15#4,218 (1933)#4,282
1940s141#1,953 (1948)#2,719
1950s456#1,230 (1959)#1,560
1960s635#1,023 (1961)#1,494
1970s285#1,805 (1971)#2,940
1980s50#4,963 (1981)#8,140
1990s5#12,958 (1990)#12,958
2000s21#14,179 (2004)#15,453
2010s0——
2020s5#15,306 (2022)#15,306

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Dede in 1933

girls
#4,218
5 births · 1 in 201,586 girls

Top girls' names in 1933

  1. #1Mary55,517
  2. #2Betty31,531
  3. #3Barbara26,949
  4. #4Dorothy22,054
  5. #5Joan19,294
  6. #6Patricia18,632
  7. #7Margaret15,241
  8. #8Helen14,644
  9. #9Shirley14,320
  10. #10Doris12,025
  11. #4,218Dede5
More about 1933

girls

1,007,932 girls got a published name in 1933; 1 in 201,586 of them was named Dede, which outranked 13.2% of the 4,858 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Dede
  1. #3,753Yvone6
  2. #3,753Zelia6
  3. #3,753Zenith6
  4. #4,218Dede5
  5. #4,218Adair5
  6. #4,218Adda5
  7. #4,218Adelyn5

Tied with 640 names at #4,218; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1932
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,022Rheta#1,754 → #732
  2. ↑ 930Joellen#1,877 → #947
  3. ↑ 583Veola#1,568 → #985
  4. ↑ 483Sharlene#1,162 → #679
  5. ↑ 475Louetta#1,448 → #973
Fallers
  1. ↓ 395Golda#969 → #1,364
  2. ↓ 322Louis#940 → #1,262
  3. ↓ 298Bebe#899 → #1,197
  4. ↓ 291Clyde#998 → #1,289
  5. ↓ 291Mariam#998 → #1,289

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1933 →