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Darrick

#5,913 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Germanic languages origin

Darrick has been given to 8,141 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #5,913 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 393 recorded.

Babies named Darrick, 2025

1 in 221,000

Darrick over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Darrick: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Germanic languages origin

Germanic languages

What Darrick means

Darrick is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Darrick is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,130 boys were recorded with the name Darrick between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 393 in 1971; its best national rank was #407 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,568 in 2020 to #5,913 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,445 in 2015 to #5,913 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Darrick between 1971 and 1976. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1971; its best national rank was #7,582 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Darrick?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,913
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Darrick sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darrick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Darricks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Darrick was born before 1977 — so the typical Darrick is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,124
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (3,165).

Is Darrick rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−200
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,345
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,468
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.8%
Peak was 1971 (393)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#407
1971

Spellings of Darrick

Darrick is not the most common spelling — Patrick is, with 72.7% against Darrick's 0.86%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Darrick is used

Across 1910–2025, Darrick was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 31,167 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 14,286
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 14,286
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 16,667
  4. 4Michigan1 in 16,667
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 16,667
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 20,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 20,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Darrick has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Darrick around the world

Where Darrick ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1994–2013
    #2,635
    in 2013

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Darrick

People whose public names include Darrick, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Darrick by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,913
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,345
Best rank ever
#407
1971
Peak year
1971
393 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,130
Count in 2025
15

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,582
1971
Peak year
1971
6 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1976
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Darrick

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DarriusDarickDarrionDarielDarrianDarionDarrienDarronDarienDarellDarnellRodrickDarianCedrickDarvinDaronMerrickGarrickDariousDarenDedrickDarioDarwinDarrin

Names with a curve like Darrick

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Darrick, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ShonJameyErinRodrickTorreyShadChadwickScottieTorranceAndreaJammieBrook

Sibling names for Darrick

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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