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Dereck

#688 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Derek

Dereck has been given to 8,296 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #688 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 413 recorded.

Babies named Dereck, 2025

1 in 8,370

Dereck over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dereck: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Derek

Germanic languages

What Dereck means

Dereck is a variant of Derek.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Dereck → Derek → Theodoric → Theodericus. The family’s meaning is “people + king”, recorded in Latin with the source elements þeudō and rīks.

Origin, language, and formation

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Derek.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dereck is pronounced /ˈdɛɹɪk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,296 boys were recorded with the name Dereck between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 413 in 2024; its best national rank was #663 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,439 in 2020 to #688 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,353 in 2015 to #688 in 2025.

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 Dereck?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,370
396 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,310
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#688
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,804 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dereck 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,804 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dereck. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Derecks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dereck was born before 1999 — so the typical Dereck is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,291
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (1,554).

Is Dereck 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
−25
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+751
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+665
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
95.9%
Peak was 2024 (413)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#663
2024

Spellings of Dereck

Dereck is not the most common spelling — Derek is, with 45.4% against Dereck's 1.6%.

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 Dereck is used

Across 2016–2025, Dereck was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 2,941 boys, against 1 in 8,055 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

134 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 2,941
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 4,000
  3. 3New York1 in 4,545
  4. 4Florida1 in 4,762
  5. 5Texas1 in 5,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 5,263
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 7,692
  8. 8Virginia1 in 7,692

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.

Dereck around the world

Where Dereck 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.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    1977–1977
    #284
    in 1977
  • Ireland
    1967–1988
    #271
    in 1988
  • France
    1972–2025
    #3,216
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1964–1984
    #455
    in 1984

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Dereck

People whose public names include Dereck, 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.

Dereck in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dereck. Linked forms have their own page here.

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Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dereck by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#688
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 751
Best rank ever
#663
2024
Peak year
2024
413 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,296
Count in 2025
396

Names similar to Dereck

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

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Names with a curve like Dereck

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

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Sibling names for Dereck

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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