# Dee (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dee/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /diː/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 23,099 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,269 / 15,830 (69% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 90, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 17 | 5,347 |
| 1991 | 25 | 4,094 |
| 1992 | 20 | 4,898 |
| 1993 | 19 | 5,042 |
| 1994 | 26 | 4,040 |
| 1995 | 17 | 5,505 |
| 1996 | 16 | 5,854 |
| 1997 | 12 | 7,393 |
| 1998 | 6 | 12,863 |
| 2000 | 7 | 12,113 |
| 2001 | 11 | 8,918 |
| 2002 | 6 | 14,043 |
| 2006 | 5 | 17,829 |
| 2010 | 5 | 17,685 |
| 2012 | 7 | 13,855 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 13 | 5,948 |
| 2006 | 12 | 6,557 |
| 2007 | 8 | 9,099 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10,116 |
| 2010 | 5 | 12,708 |
| 2011 | 7 | 9,875 |
| 2012 | 12 | 6,714 |
| 2013 | 13 | 6,330 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,054 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,001 |
| 2016 | 5 | 12,647 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,093 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,363 |
| 2020 | 6 | 10,927 |
| 2022 | 5 | 12,788 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 8 | 1,914 |
| 1997 | 5 | 2,738 |
| 1998 | 6 | 2,407 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2001 | 8 | 2,023 |
| 2002 | 11 | 1,658 |
| 2003 | 7 | 2,436 |
| 2004 | 6 | 2,802 |
| 2005 | 5 | 3,382 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3,548 |
| 2007 | 7 | 2,895 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2010 | 7 | 3,156 |
| 2012 | 5 | 4,171 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |

## People named Dee

- Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor (born 1962)
- Dee Wallace, American actress
- Dee Brown, American writer and historian (1908–2002)
- Dee Rees, American film director, screenwriter
- Dee Palmer, British musician
- Dee Brown, American basketball player (born 1984)
- Dee Brown, American basketball player (born 1968)
- Dee Strange-Gordon, American baseball player
- Dee Bost, American basketball player
- Dee Lampton, actor (1898-1919)
- Dee D. Jackson, British singer
- Dee Murray, English bassist (1946–1992)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.