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Deryck

Boys' name

Variant of Derek

Deryck has been given to 561 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 2009, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Deryck, 2019

1 in 289,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deryck: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Derek

Germanic languages

What Deryck means

Deryck is a variant of Derek.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Deryck is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɛɹ.ɪk/ for Deryck.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Deryck → Derek → Theodoric → Theodericus. The family’s meaning is “people + king”, recorded in Latin with the source elements þeudō and rīks.

Origin, language, and formation

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Derek.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 561 boys were recorded with the name Deryck between 1962 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2009; its best national rank was #2,658 in 1965.

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 Deryck?

Deryck had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 289,000
12 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 150,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
200,565 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deryck 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 2019 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 200,565 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deryck. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Derycks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deryck was born before 1993 — so the typical Deryck is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
22.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
561
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Deryck 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (18)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,658
1965

Spellings of Deryck

Deryck is not the most common spelling — Derek is, with 45.8% against Deryck's 0.11%.

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 Deryck is used

Across 1910–2025, Deryck was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,208,538 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Deryck has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deryck around the world

Where Deryck 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.

  • Scotland
    1974–1982
    #256
    in 1982
  • Canada
    2007–2007
    #2,209
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1949–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Deryck 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
#2,658
1965
Peak year
2009
18 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
561
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deryck

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

DerryckDerianDerronDervinDerriusDerinDeriusDermotDerrinDerellDerralDerrisDerrenDerrekDerrionDerrylDericoDerionDerwinDeranDerrelDereonDerrianDerric

Sibling names for Deryck

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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