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Didier

#6,545 in 2025Boys' name

Desire, longing

Didier has been given to 1,009 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #6,545 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Didier, 2025

1 in 255,000

Didier over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Didier: meaning, origin, and history

Desire, longing

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Didier means

Didier means “desire, longing”, associated with desiderium.

Origin, language, and formation

Didier is used in French.

Didier comes through Latin Desiderius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Didier is pronounced /di.dje/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,009 boys were recorded with the name Didier between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 2009; its best national rank was #2,491 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,288 in 2020 to #6,545 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,613 in 2015 to #6,545 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 Didier?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,545
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Didier 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Didier. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Didiers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Didier was born before 2009 — so the typical Didier is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,009
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Choose a decade

2010s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (347).

Is Didier 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
−2,199
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,257
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,932
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.5%
Peak was 2009 (51)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,491
2009

Spellings of Didier

Didier is not the most common spelling — Rider is, with 23.3% against Didier's 18.2%.

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 Didier is used

Across 1910–2025, Didier was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 184,785 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

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

Didier around the world

Where Didier 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    1900–2023
    #4,887
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1982–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Didier by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,545
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,257
Best rank ever
#2,491
2009
Peak year
2009
51 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,009
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Didier

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

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Sibling names for Didier

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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