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Derik

#3,972 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Derik has been given to 5,508 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #3,972 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1987, with 198 recorded.

Babies named Derik, 2025

1 in 123,000

Derik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Derik: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Derik means

Derik is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Derik is used in Walloon.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frédéric.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Walloon, Derik is pronounced /dɛ.ˈʀik/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,508 boys were recorded with the name Derik between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 198 in 1987; its best national rank was #638 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,943 in 2020 to #3,972 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,605 in 2015 to #3,972 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 Derik?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,972
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Derik 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deriks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Derik was born before 1988 — so the typical Derik is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,508
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (1,650).

Is Derik 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
−566
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−29
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−367
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.6%
Peak was 1987 (198)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#638
1980

Spellings of Derik

Derik is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 47.7% against Derik's 0.30%.

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 Derik is used

Across 1910–2025, Derik was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 61,950 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Colorado1 in 33,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Utah1 in 33,333
  5. 5Washington1 in 33,333
  6. 6Indiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Kansas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 50,000

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. Derik has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Derik around the world

Where Derik 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
    1991–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1962–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Derik

People whose public names include Derik, 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.

Derik in other languages

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

DerekDerick

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

Derik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,972
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 29
Best rank ever
#638
1980
Peak year
1987
198 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,508
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Derik

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

DerrikDeronDericDerwinDereckDerrekTarikDerrellDerinDerronDerickDerianHenrikDerylDerryTyrikYerikArikDerrionDeraldLyrikDerykDerricDerrius

Names with a curve like Derik

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

KelseyAntwonCedrickArronDontaDejuanKristoferJoryJeredJerodLaronAmit

Sibling names for Derik

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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