Dewey is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Dewey in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Dewey in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Dewey by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Dewey ranks at #3,620. That means there are 3,619 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 26,807 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Dewey. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
#18 - this is the highest position Dewey has ever reached. Not many names manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 140+ years of records. The last time Dewey was so popular is also a long time ago - it was in the century before last, in 1898, when 1,219 newborn boys were given this name. And as our statistics show, Dewey has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1886, no or fewer than 5 newborns were named Dewey (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). But even though it hasn't been at the peak of its popularity since the century before last, Dewey is still the first choice for some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn son.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dewey was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 19 newborns were given the name Dewey, making them rank #4,324. In other words, the name reached the peak of its popularity at the end of the century before last, but it still has its adherents today - just like Tchaikovsky's ballet compositions. So the chances of meeting a young Dewey are still there in our contemporary times.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Dewey is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Dewey and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dewey, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dewey sounds like this:
