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Decker

#1,501 in 2025Boys' name

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Decker has been given to 2,968 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #1,501 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 219 recorded.

Babies named Decker, 2025

1 in 28,300

Decker over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Decker: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

surname transfer

What Decker means

Decker is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Decker is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Decker is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Decker is pronounced /ˈdɛkɚ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,842 boys were recorded with the name Decker between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 219 in 2022; its best national rank was #989 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,013 in 2020 to #1,501 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,080 in 2015 to #1,501 in 2025.

In the United States, 126 girls were recorded with the name Decker between 2014 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2022; its best national rank was #5,825 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,086 in 2020 to #12,216 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Decker?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 28,300
117 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 14,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,501
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,641 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Decker sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,641 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Decker. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deckers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Decker was born before 2018 — so the typical Decker is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,842
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.0% of all recorded uses (1,394).

Is Decker rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−315
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−488
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−421
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.4%
Peak was 2022 (219)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#989
2018

Spellings of Decker

Decker is not the most common spelling — Tucker is, with 44.7% against Decker's 2.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Decker is used

Across 2016–2025, Decker was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 2,703 boys, against 1 in 9,625 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 50,000).

237 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 2,703
  2. 2Montana1 in 2,941
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 3,226
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 3,846
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 4,348
  6. 6Idaho1 in 4,762
  7. 7Kansas1 in 5,263
  8. 8Nebraska1 in 5,263

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Decker around the world

Where Decker ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Decker

People whose public names include Decker, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Decker by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,501
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 488
Best rank ever
#989
2018
Peak year
2022
219 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,842
Count in 2025
117

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,216
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,130
Best rank ever
#5,825
2022
Peak year
2022
21 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
126
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Decker

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Decker

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Decker, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KaceBastianJaxxLevThorinWessonZeusJensonKarsynNovaKilianKyng

Sibling names for Decker

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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