Dereck
Dereck was given to 396 boys in 2025, #688 among boys’ names; 8,296 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,880 Americans named Dereck and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 10 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dereck by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dereck mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dereck is “a male given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Derek.”
/ˈdɛɹɪk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dereck?
#688 among boys’ names, 2025
Dereck rose from #1,353 in 2015 to #688 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.23 per 1,000.
413 babies in 2024, the peak
Dereck peaked in 2024, when 413 boys were given it, #663 among boys’ names. The 396 births of 2025 are 96% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 396 | #688 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 413 | #663 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 291 | #837 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 203 | #1,076 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 131 | #1,399 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 120 | #1,439 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 104 | #1,594 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 116 | #1,491 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 145 | #1,256 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 125 | #1,403 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 129 | #1,353 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 149 | #1,226 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 157 | #1,150 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 133 | #1,299 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 159 | #1,138 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 144 | #1,228 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 165 | #1,121 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,156 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 148 | #1,189 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 108 | #1,439 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 132 | #1,203 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 102 | #1,393 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,409 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 85 | #1,483 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,377 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 82 | #1,485 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,328 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,390 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 106 | #1,152 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,336 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 111 | #1,063 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 107 | #1,076 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 126 | #956 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 133 | #916 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 139 | #890 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 170 | #773 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 187 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 163 | #739 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 167 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 142 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 142 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 148 | #716 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 163 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 158 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 128 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 153 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 104 | #852 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 77 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,115 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 73 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 70 | #980 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 84 | #866 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 77 | #912 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 77 | #930 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 90 | #851 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 72 | #901 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 65 | #893 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 53 | #996 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 54 | #995 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,070 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 54 | #1,028 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,071 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,155 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 47 | #1,149 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,102 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,340 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 35 | #1,308 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,590 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 23 | #1,651 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 23 | #1,622 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,777 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,577 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,277 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,535 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,814 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dereck a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dereck has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dereck: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dereck, and how old are they?
7,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 8,296 Americans ever recorded as Dereck. The median Dereck alive today is 25 years old; half are between 10 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 6,033 people named Dereck (24 women and girls, 6,009 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,475 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 329 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,090 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,460 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dereck born?
The states with the most babies named Dereck are Texas, California and New York, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 70 | #477 | 1.2× |
| California | 41 | #670 | 1.0× |
| New York | 40 | #428 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 27 | #628 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 24 | #346 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 18 | #533 | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 18 | #304 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 18 | #439 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 12 | #595 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 11 | #807 | 0.5× |
Where Dereck is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dereck is most over-represented in Texas: since 1949 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dereck with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 432,190 babies since 1880, Dereck is the fourth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 396 of their 2,052 babies (19%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dereck
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dereck and names like it
- Compare Dereck and DerekBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDereck peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dereck since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Dereck.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dereck alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.