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Derick

#1,478 in 2025Boys' name

People + king, through Derek

Derick has been given to 19,810 babies in the U.S. since 1945. In 2025 it ranked #1,478 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 571 recorded.

Babies named Derick, 2025

1 in 27,600

Derick over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Derick: meaning, origin, and history

People + king, through Derek

Germanic languages

What Derick means

Derick belongs to the name family reached through Derick → Derek → Theodoric → Theodericus. Its meaning is “people + king”.

Origin, language, and formation

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Derek, Theodoric and Theodericus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 19,771 boys were recorded with the name Derick between 1945 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 571 in 1989; its best national rank was #338 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,296 in 2020 to #1,478 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,052 in 2015 to #1,478 in 2025.

In the United States, 39 girls were recorded with the name Derick between 1974 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1974; its best national rank was #7,934 in 1974.

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 Derick?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,600
120 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 14,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,478
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,150 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Derick 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,150 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dericks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Derick was born before 1989 — so the typical Derick is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
19,742
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (4,957).

Is Derick 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
−40
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−182
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−426
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.0%
Peak was 1989 (571)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#338
1980

Spellings of Derick

Derick is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 49.8% against Derick's 1.1%.

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 Derick is used

Across 2016–2025, Derick was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 5,263 boys, against 1 in 12,254 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in 100,000).

119 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 5,263
  2. 2Maryland1 in 5,556
  3. 3New York1 in 7,692
  4. 4Florida1 in 8,333
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 8,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 10,000
  7. 7California1 in 11,111
  8. 8Georgia1 in 16,667

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.

Derick around the world

Where Derick 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
    1997–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–1988
    #337
    in 1988
  • Ireland
    1964–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1984–2024
    #4,654
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1955–1995
    #533
    in 1995

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 Derick

People whose public names include Derick, 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.

Derick by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,478
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 182
Best rank ever
#338
1980
Peak year
1989
571 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
19,771
Count in 2025
120

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,934
1974
Peak year
1974
6 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
39
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Derick

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

DerrickDereckDerwinDerrekDerrellDeronDerikDericDerronDerianRodrickDarrickCedrickChadwickMerrickDerekKendrickGarrickDerrionErickDeraldDerrikDedrickEdrick

Names with a curve like Derick

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

AntoineBrentonKoryJarvisDemetriusAntwanStefanKurtisRolandoJamelTerrellCourtney

Sibling names for Derick

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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