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Derreck

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Germanic languages origin

Derreck has been given to 1,374 babies in the U.S. since 1955. 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 1990, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Derreck, 2021

1 in 282,000

Derreck over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Derreck: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Germanic languages origin

Germanic languages

What Derreck means

Derreck is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,374 boys were recorded with the name Derreck between 1955 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 49 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,403 in 1983.

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 Derreck?

Derreck had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 282,000
12 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
195,813 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Derreck 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 2021 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 195,813 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derreck. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Derrecks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Derreck was born before 1987 — so the typical Derreck is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
27.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,374
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 27.0% of all recorded uses (371).

Is Derreck 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (49)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,403
1983

Spellings of Derreck

Derreck is not the most common spelling — Derek is, with 52.7% against Derreck'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 Derreck is used

Across 1910–2025, Derreck was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,323,246 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2North Carolina1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Derreck has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Derreck around the world

Where Derreck 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
    2010–2010
    #2,676
    in 2010

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Derreck by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,403
1983
Peak year
1990
49 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,374
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Derreck

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

DereckDerrionDerriusDerianDerronDerrellDerrekDerwoodDerwinDerrillDerinDerrianDerricDereonDerrelDerionDerrylDerrikDeraldDerellDerrinDericDervinDerry

Sibling names for Derreck

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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