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Derryk

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Germanic languages origin

Derryk has been given to 41 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 1999, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Derryk, 2011

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Derryk: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Germanic languages origin

Germanic languages

What Derryk means

Derryk is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 41 boys were recorded with the name Derryk between 1994 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1999; its best national rank was #7,152 in 1994.

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 Derryk?

Derryk had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Derryk 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derryk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Derryks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Derryk was born before 1999 — so the typical Derryk is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
61.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
41
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 61.0% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Derryk 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 1999 (8)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,152
1994

Spellings of Derryk

Derryk is not the most common spelling — Jerry is, with 35.8% against Derryk's <0.01%.

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.

Derryk around the world

Where Derryk 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.

  • South Australia
    1992–1992
    #538
    in 1992

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Derryk 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
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Best rank ever
#7,152
1994
Peak year
1999
8 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
41
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Derryk

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

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Sibling names for Derryk

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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