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I've only known one Dee. Her full name was Dinah, and she was usually known as Di. Then as a teenager she started reading Kafka and changed her Di to Dee in homage to the K character ... it suited her pretty well and became so natural that she never explained it unless someone asked. One day, I did, and she gave the reason, at which point her husband (they had two adult children by then) yelped in amazement "That's horrible! It's so pretentious!" She, naturally, laughed at him and said "Call me what you like", but he couldn't change - it was the only name he'd ever used for her.

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I hope Dee can't stand on its own. Like Elle, Jay, Kay and Em, it seems like a cop-out rather than a name. At least Harry S Truman got S and not Ess. But as a nn, it's no worse than many others. DeeDee is infantile and therefore fine for infants.