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Dedrick

#6,202 in 2025Boys' name

English surname transferred into given-name use

Dedrick has been given to 4,472 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #6,202 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 147 recorded.

Babies named Dedrick, 2025

1 in 237,000

Dedrick over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dedrick: meaning, origin, and history

English surname transferred into given-name use

English surname transfer

What Dedrick means

Dedrick is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dedrick is used in African American.

The naming story behind Dedrick

Dedrick is a given name adopted from English surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,456 boys were recorded with the name Dedrick between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 147 in 1977; its best national rank was #702 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,075 in 2020 to #6,202 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,610 in 2015 to #6,202 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Dedrick between 1975 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1985; its best national rank was #9,409 in 1975.

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.

How common is Dedrick?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,202
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dedrick 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dedrick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dedricks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dedrick was born before 1988 — so the typical Dedrick is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
24.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,414
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1970s — 24.0% of all recorded uses (1,071).

Is Dedrick 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
−919
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,127
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,592
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.5%
Peak was 1977 (147)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#702
1977

Spellings of Dedrick

Dedrick is not the most common spelling — Derrick is, with 30.7% against Dedrick's 0.94%.

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 Dedrick is used

Across 1910–2025, Dedrick was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 31,952 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 7,143
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 9,091
  3. 3Alabama1 in 16,667
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 16,667
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 20,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 20,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 20,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 33,333

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. Dedrick has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dedrick in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dedrick. Linked forms have their own page here.

DidrikDedrich

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dedrick by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,202
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,127
Best rank ever
#702
1977
Peak year
1977
147 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,456
Count in 2025
14

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,409
1975
Peak year
1985
6 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dedrick

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

GarrickMerrickCedrickDedricDeddrickDarrickRodrickKedrickJerrickDomenickMavrickFinnickKenrickChadrickYannickSedrickEdrickDederickTerrickBrodrickHendrickWarrickEmerickChadwick

Names with a curve like Dedrick

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

BrannonGarrickAricLaronTremayneJaymeLashawnAntioneTorranceToryDemetricJade

Sibling names for Dedrick

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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