Dekker
Dekker was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,412 among boys’ names; 370 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dekker by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dekker?
#8,412 among boys’ names, 2025
Dekker fell from #3,384 in 2015 to #8,412 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.2 to 5.3 per million.
35 babies in 2019, the peak
Dekker peaked in 2019, when 35 boys were given it, #3,273 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,412 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,973 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,998 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,253 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,136 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,040 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,273 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,389 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,248 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 34 | #3,310 | 17.9 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #3,384 | 17.2 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,467 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,219 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,729 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,871 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,981 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,830 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,114 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,332 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,471 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dekker a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dekker has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dekker: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dekker, and how old are they?
An estimated 367 Americans named Dekker and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 286 people named Dekker (4 women and girls, 282 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 267 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Dekker?
Dekker is a less common spelling of Decker: SSA has recorded 370 Dekker and 2,968 Decker since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,338 babies since 1880, Dekker is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 133 babies (6.8%), again the second 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 Dekker
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 Dekker and names like it
- Compare Dekker and DeckerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDekker peaked in 2019.
- Wisconsin’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dekker since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Dekker.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dekker alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.