Deroderick
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Deroderick has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 1987, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Deroderick, 1987
1 in 721,000
Deroderick 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Deroderick?
Deroderick had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1987
- 1 in 721,000
- 5 of 3,605,072 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 373,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1987
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 499,770 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Deroderick sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 499,770 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deroderick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Derodericks were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Deroderick was born before 1987 — so the typical Deroderick is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Deroderick 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1987 (5)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Deroderick
Deroderick is not the most common spelling — Roderick is, with 84.0% against Deroderick's <0.01%.
Deroderick by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Deroderick
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Deroderick
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.