Meaning not yet researched.
Dedric: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #821 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #821 in 1971; #9,110 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dedric in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,110 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #821.
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Dedric: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #821 in 1971 · most boys in one year: 107 (1977).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Dedric, making it the 9,110th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,650 places from #12,760 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 5 boys named Dedric in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #821, reached in 1971. The most boys given the name in a single year was 107, in 1977. For comparison, it was #7,625 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dedric in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 8 babies. In all, 1,883 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 845 babies named Dedric.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 84 US boys were named Dedric; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dedrick (4,472 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Dedric in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,110 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #12,760 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #9,985 |
| 2021 | — | — | 5 | #12,574 |
| 2020 | — | — | 8 | #8,929 |
| 2019 | — | — | 13 | #6,503 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #6,795 |
| 2017 | — | — | 12 | #6,782 |
| 2016 | — | — | 14 | #6,118 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,625 |
| 2014 | — | — | 14 | #6,068 |
| 2013 | — | — | 20 | #4,659 |
| 2012 | — | — | 10 | #7,676 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,325 |
| 2010 | — | — | 13 | #6,435 |
| 2009 | — | — | 15 | #5,869 |
| 2008 | — | — | 17 | #5,304 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,345 |
| 2006 | — | — | 28 | #3,620 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,680 |
| 2004 | — | — | 27 | #3,474 |
| 2003 | — | — | 19 | #4,316 |
| 2002 | — | — | 32 | #2,895 |
| 2001 | — | — | 24 | #3,530 |
| 2000 | — | — | 38 | #2,488 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,623 |
| 1998 | — | — | 43 | #2,130 |
| 1997 | — | — | 38 | #2,239 |
| 1996 | — | — | 47 | #1,915 |
| 1995 | — | — | 36 | #2,218 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,637 |
| 1993 | — | — | 28 | #2,594 |
| 1992 | — | — | 34 | #2,224 |
| 1991 | — | — | 32 | #2,247 |
| 1990 | — | — | 24 | #2,716 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,809 |
| 1988 | — | — | 17 | #3,102 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #2,976 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,300 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,448 |
| 1984 | — | — | 33 | #1,734 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,278 |
| 1982 | — | — | 22 | #2,286 |
| 1981 | — | — | 22 | #2,283 |
| 1980 | — | — | 40 | #1,527 |
| 1979 | — | — | 70 | #1,060 |
| 1978 | — | — | 86 | #935 |
| 1977 | — | — | 107 | #823 |
| 1976 | — | — | 95 | #854 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,225 | 87 | #887 |
| 1974 | — | — | 80 | #904 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,820 | 63 | #1,016 |
| 1972 | — | — | 68 | #986 |
| 1971 | — | — | 97 | #821 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,499 | 72 | #941 |
| 1969 | — | — | 59 | #1,003 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,777 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,029 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,186 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,160 |
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).