Deda

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Deda has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1976. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Deda, 1976

1 in 607,000

Deda over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deda means

Deda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Deda is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Deda between 1976 and 1976. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1976; its best national rank was #9,630 in 1976.

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 Deda?

Deda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1976, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1976: 1 in 607,000; 5 of 3,034,007 births
Among girls only: 1 in 293,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1976: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 420,604 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Deda 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 1976 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 420,604 children born in 1976 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dedas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deda was born before 1976 — so the typical Deda is around 49 today.

Median birth year: 1976; About 49 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Deda 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1976 (5)
Years since peak: 49; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #9,630; 1976

Spellings of Deda

Deda is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 17.5% against Deda's <0.01%.

Debra17.5%550,695
Edna9.4%295,116
Eva9.1%284,761
Dana6.2%193,555
Ida6.0%187,929
Vera4.8%149,456
Lena4.7%146,479
Ada3.4%106,905

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Deda around the world

Where Deda 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.

South Australia
1962–1962
#446
in 1962

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Deda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #9,630; 1976
Peak year: 1976; 5 that year
First recorded: 1976
Last recorded: 1976
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Deda

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

Dedi Feda Aeda Dedrah Ieda Deddie Dedrie Dedera Vieda Ineda Obeda Deeda Treda Greda Ikeda Saeda Teeda Loeda Akeda Dedie Maeda Voneda Alieda Agneda

Sibling names for Deda

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

For a sister

Chanda Jason Cary Kevin Karie Brandee Sunshine Sommer

For a brother

Andrea Jamey Torrey Federico Giuseppe Abdul Tory Aric

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