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Dea

#5,595 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Latin origin

Dea has been given to 1,842 babies in the U.S. since 1901. In 2025 it ranked #5,595 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Dea, 2025

1 in 151,000

Dea over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dea: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Latin origin

Latin

What Dea means

Dea is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dea is used in Albanian and Indonesian. Its origins include Latin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,825 girls were recorded with the name Dea between 1901 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1963; its best national rank was #1,685 in 1957.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,731 in 2020 to #5,595 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,702 in 2015 to #5,595 in 2025.

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Dea between 1921 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1921; its best national rank was #3,835 in 1925.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dea?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,595
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dea was born before 1972 — so the typical Dea is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
18.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,559
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Choose a decade

1960s — 18.6% of all recorded uses (340).

Is Dea rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+863
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,136
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+107
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.9%
Peak was 1963 (45)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,685
1957

Where Dea is used

Across 1910–2025, Dea was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 338,993 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in —
  5. 5Oregon1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dea around the world

Where Dea ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    1901–2025
    #2,841
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1967–1975
    #675
    in 1975

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dea by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,595
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,136
Best rank ever
#1,685
1957
Peak year
1963
45 that year
First recorded
1901
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,825
Count in 2025
22

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,835
1925
Peak year
1921
6 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dea

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Dea

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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