How Many People Are Named Dee?
people named Dee are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 23,917 people in the US has this name
Based on 23,099 babies named Dee in Social Security records from 1880 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
704 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Short form of names beginning with D. It may also be given in reference to the Dee River in Scotland.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Dee, 81.6% were girls and 18.4% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1880s: 23.8% of the babies were girls then and 24.8% in the 2000s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Dee alive today is about 64 years old, and 69% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 57 and 72 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Dee first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1961, to 704 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2022
🏆 Rank History
Dee has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #381, in 1962. Among boys, its best rank was #255, in 1887.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #381 (1962) | #255 (1887) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #441 in the 1960s | #602 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Dee alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Dee were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,682 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Dee was given 11.2 times as often in Utah, 5.7 times in Idaho and 4.7 times in Oklahoma.
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