Name meaning & stats
Dewey
Dewey. 15,644 US babies since 1940, peak 1944.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Originally a surname.
In US birth records
Peak year: 1944
15,644 US babies were named Dewey between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Dewey (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1944)