Dedric
Dedric was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,106 among boys’ names; 1,883 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,760 Americans named Dedric and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 28 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dedric by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dedric?
#9,106 among boys’ names, 2025
Dedric fell from #7,620 in 2015 to #9,106 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.7 per million.
107 babies in 1977, the peak
Dedric peaked in 1977, when 107 boys were given it, #823 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,106 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,755 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,980 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,568 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,924 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,498 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,791 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,778 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,113 | 7.4 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,620 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 14 | #6,064 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,656 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,670 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,319 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,429 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,865 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,299 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,341 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,618 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,675 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 27 | #3,470 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,311 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,891 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,525 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,483 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,619 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,127 | 22.5 |
| 1997 | 38 | #2,236 | 20.2 |
| 1996 | 47 | #1,911 | 24.8 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,213 | 18.9 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,632 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,588 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 34 | #2,219 | 17.0 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,241 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,710 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,803 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,097 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,972 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,297 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,445 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 33 | #1,733 | 18.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,277 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 22 | #2,285 | 12.1 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,282 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 40 | #1,527 | 22.4 |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,060 | 40.7 |
| 1978 | 86 | #935 | 52.4 |
| 1977 | 107 | #823 | 65.1 |
| 1976 | 95 | #854 | 60.5 |
| 1975 | 87 | #887 | 55.7 |
| 1974 | 80 | #904 | 50.9 |
| 1973 | 63 | #1,016 | 40.4 |
| 1972 | 68 | #986 | 41.9 |
| 1971 | 97 | #821 | 54.9 |
| 1970 | 72 | #941 | 38.7 |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,003 | 33.0 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,776 | 5.8 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,028 | 2.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,185 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,159 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dedric a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,883 Americans recorded as Dedric, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dedric: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dedric, and how old are they?
1,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,883 Americans ever recorded as Dedric. The median Dedric alive today is 45 years old; half are between 28 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 1,273 people named Dedric (19 women and girls, 1,254 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,759 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 862 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 383 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 374 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 127 |
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 Dedric born?
The states with the most babies named Dedric are Texas, Georgia and Louisiana, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 202 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 105 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Louisiana | 91 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| North Carolina | 53 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 43 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 41 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 33 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Mississippi | 32 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Arkansas | 12 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Dedric is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dedric is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1961 it was given 2.0 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 Dedric 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 186,351 babies since 1880, Dedric is the seventh most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 468 babies (1.7%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Dedric
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 Dedric and names like it
- Compare Dedric and DerrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDedric peaked in 1977.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dedric since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Dedric.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dedric alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.