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Dempsey

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11% girls / 89% boys

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Classic name

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1921 was its best year: 108 births, or 1 baby in 21,615. Few fads, plenty of staying power: it appears in 138 years out of 146. Latest ranking, 2025: No. 2990.
4,249births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 609rank at its peak, in 1921

Where babies named Dempsey are born

1921

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The darker the blue, the more common Dempsey is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

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Girls and boys, decade by decade

DecadeGirlsBoys
1880s0%100%
1890s0%100%
1900s0%100%
1910s0%100%
1920s2%98%
1930s0%100%
1940s3%97%
1950s0%100%
1960s0%100%
1970s0%100%
1980s0%100%
1990s17%83%
2000s19%81%
2010s28%72%
2020s37%63%