Dez

Where Dez comes from

The dictionaries list Dez as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Desmond — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1999
    First appearance
    #9,912 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2015
    Peak, #2,722
    44 babies named Dez — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,594.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Desmond.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Dez hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.