Didier
Didier was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,545 among boys’ names; 1,009 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Didier by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Didier mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Didier is “a male given name, borne by two early French saints” Its etymology gives the sense “desire, longing” (desiderium).
Inherited from Latin Desiderius, from desiderium (“desire, longing”).
/di.dje/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Didier?
#6,545 among boys’ names, 2025
Didier fell from #2,613 in 2015 to #6,545 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.5 to 7.6 per million.
51 babies in 2009, the peak
Didier peaked in 2009, when 51 boys were given it, #2,491 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,545 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,346 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,138 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,460 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,813 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,288 | 19.7 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,515 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,259 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,260 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,796 | 22.7 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #2,613 | 24.5 |
| 2014 | 37 | #3,048 | 19.3 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,518 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,065 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,917 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,647 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,491 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 43 | #2,793 | 21.1 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,569 | 23.1 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,812 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,253 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,896 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,334 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,941 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,571 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,652 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,585 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,021 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,369 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,432 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,334 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,161 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,511 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,862 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,625 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,981 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,392 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,889 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,028 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,696 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,294 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,570 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,661 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,320 | 5.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,097 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,725 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,923 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,184 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,372 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,282 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,655 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,833 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,042 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,199 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,760 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Didier a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Didier has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Didier: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Didier, and how old are they?
An estimated 984 Americans named Didier and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,230 people named Didier (28 women and girls, 2,202 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 859 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Didier born?
The states with the most babies named Didier are California, Texas and New York, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 131 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 92 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 25 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Didier with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Didier
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 Didier and names like it
- Compare Didier and BrighamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDidier peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Didier since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Didier: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Didier.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Didier alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.