Dedi

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dedi is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name2.9K records spelled Dedi5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Brazil, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written De-Di

• Portuguese given name1.9K records spelled Dedi5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, United States, Argentina

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Dédi, Dêdi, Dedí

• French given name1.1K records spelled Dedi4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Côte d’Ivoire, Congo - Kinshasa, United States

  Also written Dédi, Dèdi, Dėdi

• Hindi given name1.1K records spelled Dedi3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Malaysia, United States, Pakistan

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Dêdi

• Croatian name291 records spelled Dedi7 spellings in the group

  Also written Деди

• French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name282 records spelled Dedi2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Dédi

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Dedi is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latin, first-person singular perfect active indicative of dō

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Turkish, third-person singular indicative simple past of demek

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In dum, contraction of dēde hi

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In sqj-pro, cheese

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In rop, father

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In zag, twenty

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

• Veli Dedib. 1912ALAlbanian general
• Hans Dedib. 1918DEGerman entrepreneur (1918–2016)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 149 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dedi?

We estimate roughly 130 people bear Dedi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.

In which country does Dedi have the most bearers?

Dedi is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled dedi.

How common is Dedi compared with other names?

In Indonesia, Dedi is the 66th most common given name of 232,466 given names recorded there.

Is Dedi a male or female name?

Dedi is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.