Derico
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Derico has been given to 337 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Derico, 2023
1 in 474,000
Derico over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Derico?
Derico had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,234 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Derico sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derico. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dericos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Derico was born before 1991 — so the typical Derico is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 31.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 337
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (105).
Is Derico 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1991 (21)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.4% average annual change
Spellings of Derico
Derico is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 72.3% against Derico's 0.03%.
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 Derico is used
Across 1910–2025, Derico was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,037,264 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).
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. Derico has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Derico by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Derico
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Derico
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.