Dedrick
Dedrick was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,202 among boys’ names; 4,472 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,160 Americans named Dedrick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 25 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dedrick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dedrick?
#6,202 among boys’ names, 2025
Dedrick fell from #2,610 in 2015 to #6,202 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.5 to 8.2 per million.
152 babies in 1977, the peak
Dedrick peaked in 1977, when 152 babies were given it (147 boys, #702 among boys’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,202 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,283 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,997 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,594 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,831 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,075 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,365 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,385 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,793 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,013 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #2,610 | 24.5 |
| 2014 | 38 | #2,995 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,066 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,563 | 25.3 |
| 2011 | 56 | #2,290 | 29.5 |
| 2010 | 48 | #2,560 | 25.0 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,489 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,272 | 28.4 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,191 | 29.4 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,254 | 27.2 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,035 | 30.5 |
| 2004 | 74 | #1,718 | 37.3 |
| 2003 | 80 | #1,579 | 40.5 |
| 2002 | 71 | #1,660 | 36.6 |
| 2001 | 72 | #1,628 | 37.1 |
| 2000 | 79 | #1,514 | 40.2 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,457 | 41.1 |
| 1998 | 74 | #1,487 | 38.7 |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,332 | 44.6 |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,197 | 49.6 |
| 1995 | 103 | #1,123 | 54.1 |
| 1994 | 104 | #1,102 | 53.8 |
| 1993 | 104 | #1,095 | 53.0 |
| 1992 | 97 | #1,113 | 48.6 |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,072 | 50.5 |
| 1990 | 110 | #1,005 | 53.6 |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,195 | 40.0 |
| 1988 | 91 | #1,032 | 47.5 |
| 1987 | 79 | #1,081 | 42.3 |
| 1986 | 86 | #995 | 46.7 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,095 | 39.0 |
| 1984 | 87 | #945 | 48.2 |
| 1983 | 87 | #946 | 48.5 |
| 1982 | 86 | #972 | 47.4 |
| 1981 | 86 | #974 | 48.0 |
| 1980 | 120 | #801 | 67.3 |
| 1979 | 114 | #817 | 66.2 |
| 1978 | 132 | #732 | 80.4 |
| 1977 | 147 | #702 | 89.5 |
| 1976 | 114 | #777 | 72.7 |
| 1975 | 94 | #857 | 60.2 |
| 1974 | 115 | #757 | 73.1 |
| 1973 | 104 | #779 | 66.7 |
| 1972 | 103 | #789 | 63.5 |
| 1971 | 82 | #903 | 46.4 |
| 1970 | 66 | #1,000 | 35.5 |
| 1969 | 56 | #1,030 | 31.3 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,908 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 25 | #1,545 | 14.3 |
| 1966 | 25 | #1,544 | 14.0 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,239 | 20.4 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,749 | 10.5 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,849 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 17 | #1,983 | 8.2 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,893 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,447 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,325 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,628 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 19 | #1,846 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,188 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,532 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,576 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,560 | 5.1 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,803 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,395 | 3.4 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,561 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,602 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,639 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,643 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,092 | 4.6 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,836 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,450 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dedrick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dedrick has been given almost only to boys: 16 girls in 82 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dedrick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dedrick, and how old are they?
4,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 4,472 Americans ever recorded as Dedrick. The median Dedrick alive today is 36 years old; half are between 25 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 3,035 people named Dedrick (25 women and girls, 3,010 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,129 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 128 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 367 |
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 Dedrick born?
The states with the most babies named Dedrick are Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 629 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Louisiana | 452 | not ranked | 5.3× |
| Tennessee | 415 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Georgia | 233 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Alabama | 190 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Florida | 154 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 123 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| California | 101 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 95 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Arkansas | 93 | not ranked | 2.1× |
Where Dedrick is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dedrick is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1920 it was given 5.3 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 Dedrick 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 193,199 babies since 1880, Dedrick is the sixth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 864 babies (1.6%), the fifth 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 Dedrick
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 Dedrick and names like it
- Compare Dedrick and DerrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDedrick peaked in 1977.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dedrick since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Dedrick.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dedrick alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.