Dewey
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#3,870
down −242 places
2025 births
28
down −3 births
All-time births
34,373
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1898
- 1,115 births
- Best rank
- #19
- in 1898
- First recorded
- 1887
- #964 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1939
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 139 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 18981,115#19Peak
- 1925798#181
- 1924773#186
- 1926767#188
- 1921762#184
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #19 in 1898 · peak births 1,115 in 1898
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 98% boys■ 2% girls
34,373 boys · 547 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Dewey has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.