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The name Dewey is derived from a surname. The table below indicates the number of times the name Dewey has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Dewey**
Use of the Name Dewey for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
32,827	6,696	627	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Dewey has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Dewey first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1887, which is the first year shown on the table. Dewey last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1986, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Dewey**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1887	964	5
1888	838	7
1889	532	13
1890	464	16
1891	656	9
1892	814	8
1893	787	8
1894	486	17
1895	349	28
1896	224	63
1897	111	158	904	13
1898	19	1,115	305	104
1899	39	499	632	24
1900	75	345
1901	121	137
1902	139	136
1903	133	140
1904	185	97
1905	184	99
1906	214	83
1907	207	93
1908	206	99
1909	227	91
1910	265	85
1911	249	107
1912	275	167
1913	303	173
1914	317	205
1915	301	286
1916	267	358
1917	246	416
1918	223	558
1919	207	603
1920	208	619
1921	182	766
1922	193	718
1923	185	763
1924	186	768
1925	181	797
1926	188	764
1927	196	724
1928	202	676
1929	208	628
1930	206	648
1931	211	597
1932	212	584
1933	221	518
1934	228	508
1935	231	502
1936	229	498
1937	240	482
1938	238	499
1939	241	479
1940	228	543
1941	256	477
1942	265	504
1943	248	565
1944	214	645
1945	271	480
1946	281	519
1947	293	553
1948	267	611
1949	317	457
1950	338	394
1951	332	420
1952	341	419
1953	352	391
1954	364	391
1955	362	401
1956	382	389
1957	408	364
1958	432	327
1959	441	327
1960	454	315
1961	466	302
1962	476	279
1963	460	293
1964	473	280
1965	474	271
1966	493	236
1967	522	205
1968	501	226
1969	532	218
1970	533	228
1971	539	220
1972	591	182
1973	654	149
1974	639	159
1975	631	164
1976	722	135
1977	719	139
1978	772	119
1979	728	141
1980	758	134
1981	863	105
1982	854	108
1983	883	99
1984	911	93
1985
1986	980	88
Totals:		32,827		141

During the last 125 years, parents have used Dewey as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Dewey appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 99 times during the last 125 years.

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