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Dede

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dede has been given to 1,613 babies in the U.S. since 1933. 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 1961, with 113 recorded.

Babies named Dede, 2022

1 in 677,000

Dede over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dede: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dede means

Dede is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dede is used in English and Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,613 girls were recorded with the name Dede between 1933 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 113 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,024 in 1961.

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 Dede?

Dede had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dede 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dede. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dedes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dede was born before 1962 — so the typical Dede is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,457
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (635).

Is Dede 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
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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 1961 (113)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,024
1961

Spellings of Dede

Dede is not the most common spelling — Jade is, with 19.1% against Dede's 0.30%.

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.

Where Dede is used

Across 1910–2025, Dede was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 203,635 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Kentucky1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Missouri1 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. Dede has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dede around the world

Where Dede 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.

  • France
    1974–2006
    #5,804
    in 2006

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Dede 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
#1,024
1961
Peak year
1961
113 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
1,613
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dede

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

DedraKaedeDedriaDedeeSuedeDedreMercedeDedieDedreaDediDeedeDedaDedricKennedeElfriedeDedorahEdeDederaDedrickHiedeDeddieDedrieJaedeDedrah

Sibling names for Dede

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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