Dee

7,009 people in the United States were counted with the surname Dee in the 2020 census, making it the 4,881st most common in the country. That is about one person in 42,600.

By the numbers

People: 7,009
Rank: 4,881st
How common: 1 in 42,600
Per 100,000: 2.3

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dee described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 66.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 12.6%
Black, not Hispanic 9.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%

Notable people called Dee

John Dee (1527–1609)16th-century English mathematician, astrologer, and alchemist
Sandra Dee (1942–2005)American actress and model
Ruby Dee (1922–2014)American actress
Mikkey Dee (born 1963)Swedish drummer
Sophie Dee (born 1984)British pornographic actress
Frances Dee (1909–2004)American actress
Kiki Dee (born 1947)British singer
Michelle Dee (born 1995)Filipino actress, model, TV host, and beauty pageant titleholder

People named Dee with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Dee

Also a first name

Dee has been given to 23,099 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1961. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.