Decker

55,000 people in the United States were counted with the surname Decker in the 2020 census, making it the 597th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,435.

By the numbers

People: 55,000
Rank: 597th
How common: 1 in 5,435
Per 100,000: 18.4

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Decker described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Decker

Brooklyn Decker (born 1987)American model and actress
Mary Decker (born 1958)American athletics competitor, middle distance runner, long distance runner
Jessie James Decker (born 1988)American singer and songwriter
Pierre De Decker (1812–1891)Belgian politician
Karl Decker (1897–1945)German general
Karl Decker (1921–2005)Austrian footballer
Andreas Decker (born 1952)East German rower
Jennifer Decker (born 1982)French actress

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

Surnames like Decker

Also a first name

Decker has been given to 2,968 American babies as a first name since 1990, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.