Meaning not yet researched.
Decker: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 117 in 2025. Its best rank was #989 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #989 in 2018; #1,501 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Decker in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,501 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #989.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Decker: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 117 boys in 2025. Peak: #989 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 219 (2022).
In 2025, 117 US boys were named Decker, making it the 1,501st most common boys’ name of the year, down 315 places from #1,186 in 2024. That is 57 fewer than the 174 boys named Decker in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #989, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 219, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,080 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Decker in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 14 babies. In all, 2,968 US babies have been given the name, 4.2% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,447 babies named Decker.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,908 US boys were named Decker; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 219. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,599 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Decker ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #635 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Dekker, Deker and Deiker are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dekker (370), Deker (37), Deiker (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Decker in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 7 | #635 | #621 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #664 | #480 |
| Colorado | 6 | #787 | #526 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,070 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,130 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,246 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,337 | #1,216 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,578 | #1,206 |
| California | 6 | #2,257 | #1,131 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,220 | 117 | #1,501 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,493 | 174 | #1,186 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,165 | 180 | #1,157 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,828 | 219 | #1,017 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,732 | 202 | #1,061 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,091 | 205 | #1,013 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,451 | 198 | #1,042 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,261 | 210 | #989 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,925 | 203 | #998 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,028 | 200 | #1,013 |
| 2015 | — | — | 182 | #1,080 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,223 | 180 | #1,075 |
| 2013 | — | — | 82 | #1,768 |
| 2012 | — | — | 72 | #1,967 |
| 2011 | — | — | 36 | #3,123 |
| 2010 | — | — | 31 | #3,477 |
| 2009 | — | — | 29 | #3,654 |
| 2008 | — | — | 30 | #3,578 |
| 2007 | — | — | 27 | #3,807 |
| 2006 | — | — | 15 | #5,586 |
| 2005 | — | — | 21 | #4,228 |
| 2004 | — | — | 20 | #4,300 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,094 |
| 2002 | — | — | 17 | #4,547 |
| 2001 | — | — | 14 | #5,194 |
| 2000 | — | — | 30 | #2,932 |
| 1999 | — | — | 15 | #4,582 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,440 |
| 1997 | — | — | 19 | #3,628 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,673 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,530 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,592 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,068 |
| 1992 | — | — | 13 | #4,378 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,052 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,023 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).