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 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#618 · 1 in 3,347
- Minnesota#640 · 1 in 3,500
- Colorado#756 · 1 in 4,475
- Tennessee#1,040 · 1 in 7,354
- Pennsylvania#1,094 · 1 in 8,710
Best ever in a state: #199 in Montana, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Wisconsin | #618 | 7 | 1 in 3,347 |
| Minnesota | #640 | 7 | 1 in 3,500 |
| Colorado | #756 | 6 | 1 in 4,475 |
| Tennessee | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 7,354 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,094 | 6 | 1 in 8,710 |
| Georgia | #1,216 | 6 | 1 in 8,370 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
| Texas | #1,555 | 11 | 1 in 15,914 |
| California | #2,203 | 6 | 1 in 29,246 |
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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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 229,610 of them was named Decker, which outranked 31.0% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #10,917Zurianna8
- #10,917Zynori8
- #10,917Zyorah8
- #11,932Decker7
- #11,932Aalaiyah7
- #11,932Aalina7
- #11,932Aamani7
- #13,208Aadhirai6
- #13,208Aadhyasri6
- #13,208Aafia6
Tied with 1,275 names at #11,932; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 14,599 of them was named Decker, which outranked 89.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,492Jermaine118
- #1,492Kyair118
- #1,492Nickolas118
- #1,499Decker117
- #1,499Carver117
- #1,499Clarence117
- #1,499Hakeem117
- #1,509Brent116
- #1,509Freddie116
- #1,509Masai116
Tied with 9 names at #1,499; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.