girls:
20 births since 1970
#5696 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1961
#2906 (37th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1961
#5890 (24th percentile)
The name Dedric is the #5,890 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,870 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 23.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,906 (36.6% percentile) for all time with 1,850 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,696 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 20 births since 1970.
Dedric first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Dedric is available in 58 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (58 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dedric has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dedric reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 15.0% percentile (ranked #573) with 63 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 63 births per million (ranked 15.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dedric ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 6.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dedric reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #738) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1975.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dedric".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dedric is pronounced as DEH-drihk, which has 2 syllables.
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