Dewey Boys

The U.S. popularity history of Dewey: every year it appeared on the national list since 1887, with 34,373 recorded births in total. All figures come from official Social Security card application data.

Total recorded births

34,373

Peak year

1898 #19

Years on the list

139

10-year trend

+6.3%

In the 1890s ·

Popularity history

1887–2025

Year	Births	Rank
2011	21	#4540
2012	33	#3318
2013	28	#3684
2014	17	#5305
2015	17	#5352
2016	16	#5614
2017	28	#3800
2018	26	#4020
2019	28	#3824
2020	30	#3594
2021	35	#3315
2022	19	#5073
2023	23	#4492
2024	31	#3628
2025	28	#3870

Most recent years shown. The full curve above covers every year the name appeared.

Where {name} was most used in 1898

State-level records for this name and year are not published (names with fewer than 5 births in a state are suppressed).

Names from the same era

Will · 1888 Grover · 1884 Willard · 1915 Jess · 1915 Anton · 1915 Orrin · 1915 Waldo · 1915 Garfield · 1881 Gustave · 1915 Hugh · 1916

Names similar to Dewey

Dewel Boys Dewell Boys Drewey Boys Dewetta Girls Dewy Boys Dewa Girls Dewi Girls Dewan Boys Dewon Boys Dewie Boys Lewey Boys Hewey Boys

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