Decker

#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #1,499 for boys in 2025, 117 births
Given to boys 95.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
2018 · 210 births
Debut · boys
14 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,842
since 1990

Decker over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Decker has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202017peak #984, 2018boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#11,9327#1,499117
2024#12,1617#1,186174
2023#8,05513#1,156180
2022#5,79321#1,015219
2021#7,63014#1,060202
2020#8,95311#1,013205
2019#7,34215#1,041198
2018#8,14613#984210
2017#11,6158#996203
2016#8,87512#1,013200
2015#1,080182
2014#16,5135#1,074180
2013#1,76382
2012#1,95972
2011#3,11436
2010#3,45331
2009#3,63929
2008#3,56130
2007#3,79327
2006#5,52515
2005#4,19821
2004#4,26420
2003#5,03515
2002#4,50217
2001#5,14214
2000#2,92230
1999#4,53715
1998#6,3149
1997#3,60119
1996#4,61313
1995#6,4078
1994#4,53713
1993#4,02015
1992#4,32713
1991#4,00514
1990#3,97114
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First appearance
1990

The first year at least five boys were named Decker! It came in at #3,971, and was given to 14 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1995, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.

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Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 313 spots since 2024 (#1,186#1,499)
  • 486 spots since 2020 (#1,013#1,499)
  • 419 spots since 2015 (#1,080#1,499)
  • Biggest jump: 17 spots in 2017 (#1,013#996)
  • Biggest drop: 57 spots in 2019 (#984#1,041)
Rise & fade · boys
28 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1990
  • Peaked 2018 at #984 (210 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2017–2018
Share of babies · boys
1 in 7,973
  • Highest: 1 in 7,973 boys born in 2022 were named Decker (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 14,599 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #984 in 2018, was only 1 in 8,648 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 49.0% of all boys named Decker (1,394) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s133#3,601 (1997)#4,633
2000s218#2,922 (2000)#4,258
2010s1,394#984 (2018)#1,648
2020s1,097#1,013 (2020)#1,155

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Decker in 2017

girls
#11,615
8 births · 1 in 215,808 girls
boys
#996
203 births · 1 in 9,118 boys

Top girls' names in 2017

  1. #1Emma19,873
  2. #2Olivia18,778
  3. #3Ava16,017
  4. #4Isabella15,263
  5. #5Sophia14,947
  6. #6Mia13,521
  7. #7Charlotte12,969
  8. #8Amelia11,870
  9. #9Evelyn10,748
  10. #10Abigail10,645
  11. #11,615Decker8

Top boys' names in 2017

  1. #1Liam18,874
  2. #2Noah18,507
  3. #3William15,046
  4. #4James14,362
  5. #5Logan14,061
  6. #6Benjamin13,858
  7. #7Mason13,602
  8. #8Elijah13,449
  9. #9Jacob13,269
  10. #10Oliver13,224
  11. #996Decker203
More about 2017

girls

1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 215,808 of them was named Decker, which outranked 37.0% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Decker
  1. #10,689Zyniah9
  2. #10,689Zyria9
  3. #10,689Zyva9
  4. #11,615Decker8
  5. #11,615Aadrika8
  6. #11,615Aaiza8
  7. #11,615Aaleeyah8
  8. #12,713Aalaiyah7
  9. #12,713Aanshi7
  10. #12,713Aaradhana7

Tied with 1,097 names at #11,615; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 1,443Ensley#2,412#969
  2. 1,020Oaklynn#1,908#888
  3. 842Dream#1,667#825
  4. 749Oaklyn#1,425#676
  5. 717Melania#1,649#932
Fallers
  1. 263Julianne#919#1,182
  2. 243Milania#947#1,190
  3. 240Wendy#858#1,098
  4. 238Montserrat#808#1,046
  5. 224Nathaly#930#1,154

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 9,118 of them was named Decker, which outranked 93.0% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Decker
  1. #993Brenden205
  2. #993Lyle205
  3. #995Tyrone204
  4. #996Decker203
  5. #996Alaric203
  6. #996Camron203
  7. #996Howard203
  8. #1,003Kamdyn202
  9. #1,003Ramiro202
  10. #1,003Robin202

Tied with 6 names at #996; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 497Wells#1,413#916
  2. 419Kairo#1,221#802
  3. 339Caspian#1,199#860
  4. 313Colson#1,049#736
  5. 311Kace#1,183#872
Fallers
  1. 415Riaan#861#1,276
  2. 292Chevy#980#1,272
  3. 245Kylo#904#1,149
  4. 226Braeden#993#1,219
  5. 194Kamdyn#809#1,003

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2017