Dedric
#9,106 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dedric has been given to 1,883 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #9,106 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 107 recorded.
Babies named Dedric, 2025
1 in 414,000
Dedric over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dedric?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,106
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dedric sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dedric. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dedrics were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dedric was born before 1980 — so the typical Dedric is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 44.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 19.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,863
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (825).
Is Dedric 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
- +3,649
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −182
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,486
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.80×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 7.5%
- Peak was 1977 (107)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.0% average annual change
Spellings of Dedric
Dedric is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 77.1% against Dedric's 0.16%.
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 Dedric is used
Across 1910–2025, Dedric was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 117,588 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 2Georgia1 in 50,000
- 3Texas1 in 50,000
- 4Alabama1 in 100,000
- 5Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 6Florida1 in 100,000
- 7Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 100,000
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. Dedric has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dedric by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Dedric
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dedric
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.