Decker
Decker was given to 117 boys in 2025, #1,501 among boys’ names; 2,968 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,940 Americans named Decker and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Decker by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Decker mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Decker is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
/ˈdɛkɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Decker?
#1,501 among boys’ names, 2025
Decker fell from #1,080 in 2015 to #1,501 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 95.0 to 68.5 per million.
240 babies in 2022, the peak
Decker peaked in 2022, when 240 babies were given it (219 boys, #1,017 among boys’ names). The 124 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 52% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,501 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 174 | #1,186 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 180 | #1,157 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 219 | #1,017 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 202 | #1,061 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 205 | #1,013 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 198 | #1,042 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 210 | #989 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 203 | #998 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 200 | #1,013 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 182 | #1,080 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 180 | #1,075 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 82 | #1,767 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 72 | #1,966 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,122 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,476 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,652 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,575 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,805 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,582 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,223 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,295 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,089 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,541 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,187 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,926 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,576 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,433 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,623 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,666 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,523 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,586 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,062 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,371 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,045 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,017 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Decker a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,968 Americans recorded as Decker, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls and 117 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Decker: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Decker, and how old are they?
2,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,968 Americans ever recorded as Decker. The median Decker alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,856 people named Decker (90 women and girls, 1,766 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,836 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 87 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 394 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,460 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Decker born?
The states with the most babies named Decker are Texas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota and Wisconsin are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,578 | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 7 | #664 | 1.8× |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #635 | 1.4× |
| California | 6 | #2,257 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 6 | #787 | 2.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,130 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,246 | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,337 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,070 | 0.5× |
Where Decker is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Decker is most over-represented in Colorado: since 1990 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Decker with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,338 babies since 1880, Decker is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 124 of their 133 babies (93%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Decker
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Decker and names like it
- Compare Decker and DekkerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDecker peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Decker since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Decker: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Decker.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Decker alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.