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Deedee

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deedee has been given to 3,478 babies in the U.S. since 1935. 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 1962, with 193 recorded.

Babies named Deedee, 2011

1 in 610,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deedee: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deedee means

Deedee is a given name.

The naming story behind Deedee

Wikidata records Deedee as a given name. The entity identifier is Q95158469, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,478 girls were recorded with the name Deedee between 1935 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 193 in 1962; its best national rank was #743 in 1962.

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.

How common is Deedee?

Deedee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deedee 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 2011 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 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deedee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deedees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deedee was born before 1965 — so the typical Deedee is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,310
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (1,392).

Is Deedee 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1962 (193)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#743
1962

Spellings of Deedee

Deedee is not the most common spelling — Deidre is, with 52.3% against Deedee's 12.4%.

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 Deedee is used

Across 1910–2025, Deedee was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 82,707 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 100,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Hawaii1 in 100,000

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. Deedee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deedee around the world

Where Deedee 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
    2014–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Deedee

People whose public names include Deedee, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Deedee in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Deedee. Linked forms have their own page here.

Dee Dee

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Deedee 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
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Best rank ever
#743
1962
Peak year
1962
193 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
3,478
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deedee

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

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Names with a curve like Deedee

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Deedee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Deedee

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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