Dede
Dede is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1961113 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1933
- 1,613people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,613 girls have been named Dede in the United States since 1933, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 113 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 113 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 39%.
By decade
In 1961, its biggest year
Dede was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Dede
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lorrypeak 1960
- Penneypeak 1962
- Beckypeak 1959
- Taripeak 1959
- Sherriepeak 1962
- Lauriepeak 1962
- Merripeak 1963
- Tamapeak 1959
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.