Didier

Popularity, 1880–2025

boys named Didier

By the numbers

Total US births

1,009

Estimated living today

990

Median age today

16

Peak year

2009

Best rank

2,486th

Rank in 2025

6,446th

First recorded

1960

How old the living Didiers are

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,009 babies given the name since 1960, about 990 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 580 of them are children and 5 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Didiers

• Didier Drogba (born 1978)Ivorian and French association football player
• Didier Deschamps (born 1968)French association football player and coach
• Didier Queloz (born 1966)Swiss astronomer
• Didier Burkhalter (born 1960)member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2009 to 2017
• Didier Zokora (born 1980)Ivorian association football player
• Didier Ratsiraka (1936–2021)President of Madagascar
• Didier Reynders (born 1958)Belgian politician, currently European Commissioner for Justice
• Didier Pironi (1952–1987)French racing driver

People named Didier with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Didier is most common

• CA131
• TX92
• NY25
• FL23

Relative to how many babies each state records, Didier is most concentrated in California (4.8×), Texas (4.4×), Florida (2.5×), New York (1.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2009

The most popular boys’ names the year Didier peaked:

• Jacob
• Ethan
• Michael
• Alexander
• William
• Joshua

All the names of 2009

Didier elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Didier: rank by region

In 2001, Didier was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2024, Didier was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Didier among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Didier lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 479 men called Didier were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.