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Derrek

#12,494 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Germanic languages origin

Derrek has been given to 3,047 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #12,494 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 128 recorded.

Babies named Derrek, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Derrek: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Germanic languages origin

Germanic languages

What Derrek means

Derrek is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,047 boys were recorded with the name Derrek between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 128 in 1989; its best national rank was #889 in 1989.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,301 in 2020 to #12,494 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,926 in 2015 to #12,494 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 Derrek?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,494
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Derrek 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derrek. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Derreks were born

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

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,047
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Choose a decade

1980s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (842).

Is Derrek 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
−2,353
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,193
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,568
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.26×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.9%
Peak was 1989 (128)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#889
1989

Spellings of Derrek

Derrek is not the most common spelling — Derek is, with 40.8% against Derrek's 0.52%.

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 Derrek is used

Across 1910–2025, Derrek was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 154,749 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Indiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Dakota1 in 100,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

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

Derrek around the world

Where Derrek 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
    1991–2009
    #2,118
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1962–1978
    #424
    in 1978

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 Derrek

People whose public names include Derrek, 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.

Derrek in other languages

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

Derreck

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

Derrek by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,494
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,193
Best rank ever
#889
1989
Peak year
1989
128 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,047
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Derrek

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

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Names with a curve like Derrek

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

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Sibling names for Derrek

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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