Decker
Decker is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 174 births. Its best rank was 988th, in 2018.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1740.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2022219 births
- Best rank
- #988in 2018
- Since 1990
- 2,844people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,725 boys have been named Decker in the United States since 1990, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 219 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2010s alone account for 51%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 119 girls have also been given it, 4.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2022, its biggest year
Decker was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.
Names that rose and fell with Decker
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kacepeak 2019
- Daxtonpeak 2019
- Bastianpeak 2024
- Messiahpeak 2021
- Odinpeak 2022
- Massiahpeak 2021
- Axlepeak 2021
- Finnleypeak 2021
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.