Dedric is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Dedric in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Dedric in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Dedric by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Dedric ranks at #6,281. That means there are 6,280 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dedric.
Is the name Dedric a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 97 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1971 – at that time, it ranked #748. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Dedric is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their baby boy this unusual name. So, if your name is Dedric, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dedric was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Dedric born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn boys with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Dedric born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
The odds of having a man or boy named Dedric in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Dedric is registered in 13 states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Dedric live in Louisiana, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 32,319 men and boys in Louisiana for their name before you meet one who answers with Dedric.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Dedric is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Dedric and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dedric, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Dinosaur
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dedric
Dedric
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
E
D
R
I
C
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
E
D
R
I
C
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dedric sounds like this:
