Decker
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #1,499 for boys in 2025, 117 births
Given to boys 95.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 210 births
- Debut · boys
- 14 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,842since 1990
Decker over time
Rank among boys' names. Decker has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #1,499 | 117 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #1,186 | 174 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 | #1,156 | 180 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 | #1,015 | 219 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | #1,060 | 202 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #1,013 | 205 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #1,041 | 198 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #984 | 210 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #996 | 203 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #1,013 | 200 |
| 2015 | — | #1,080 | 182 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #1,074 | 180 |
| 2013 | — | #1,763 | 82 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,959 | 72 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,114 | 36 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,453 | 31 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,639 | 29 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,561 | 30 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,793 | 27 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,525 | 15 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,198 | 21 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,264 | 20 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,035 | 15 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,502 | 17 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,142 | 14 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,922 | 30 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,537 | 15 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,314 | 9 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,601 | 19 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,613 | 13 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,407 | 8 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,537 | 13 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,020 | 15 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,327 | 13 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,005 | 14 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,971 | 14 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Decker! It came in at #3,971, and was given to 14 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.
Where Decker is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Dakota#204 · 1 in 633
- Idaho#296 · 1 in 1,116
- Colorado#457 · 1 in 2,152
- Minnesota#494 · 1 in 2,618
- Arizona#508 · 1 in 2,787
Best ever in a state: #199 in Montana, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | #204 | 6 | 1 in 633 |
| Idaho | #296 | 7 | 1 in 1,116 |
| Colorado | #457 | 12 | 1 in 2,152 |
| Minnesota | #494 | 10 | 1 in 2,618 |
| Arizona | #508 | 12 | 1 in 2,787 |
| Utah | #660 | 5 | 1 in 3,871 |
| Wisconsin | #668 | 6 | 1 in 4,181 |
| Ohio | #750 | 11 | 1 in 5,143 |
| Missouri | #856 | 5 | 1 in 5,953 |
| North Carolina | #967 | 7 | 1 in 7,164 |
| California | #1,084 | 19 | 1 in 10,692 |
| Texas | #1,205 | 15 | 1 in 11,636 |
| Florida | #1,406 | 7 | 1 in 13,537 |
| New York | #1,430 | 7 | 1 in 13,364 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Decker
- 313 spots since 2024 (#1,186 → #1,499)
- 486 spots since 2020 (#1,013 → #1,499)
- 419 spots since 2015 (#1,080 → #1,499)
- Biggest jump: 17 spots in 2017 (#1,013 → #996)
- Biggest drop: 57 spots in 2019 (#984 → #1,041)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2018 at #984 (210 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2017–2018
- Highest: 1 in 7,973 boys born in 2022 were named Decker (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,599 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #984 in 2018, was only 1 in 8,648 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 49.0% of all boys named Decker (1,394) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 133 | #3,601 (1997) | #4,633 |
| 2000s | 218 | #2,922 (2000) | #4,258 |
| 2010s | 1,394 | #984 (2018) | #1,648 |
| 2020s | 1,097 | #1,013 (2020) | #1,155 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Decker in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 111,891 of them was named Decker, which outranked 59.3% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,025Zona16
- #7,025Zyiah16
- #7,025Zyonna16
- #7,342Decker15
- #7,342Aasha15
- #7,342Aberdeen15
- #7,342Abi15
- #7,716Aadvika14
- #7,716Aamani14
- #7,716Aamirah14
Tied with 373 names at #7,342; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 9,062 of them was named Decker, which outranked 92.6% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).