Deric
Deric was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,301 among boys’ names; 4,744 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,410 Americans named Deric and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 27 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deric by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Deric mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Deric is “a male given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Derek.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Deric?
#7,301 among boys’ names, 2025
Deric fell from #2,933 in 2015 to #7,301 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.9 to 6.4 per million.
122 babies in 1980, the peak
Deric peaked in 1980, when 122 boys were given it, #792 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,301 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,896 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,117 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,914 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,668 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,043 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,365 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,014 | 14.3 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,501 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,708 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,933 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 38 | #2,997 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,631 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 41 | #2,875 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 54 | #2,354 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 48 | #2,561 | 25.0 |
| 2009 | 50 | #2,535 | 25.2 |
| 2008 | 50 | #2,523 | 24.5 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,193 | 29.4 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,111 | 30.2 |
| 2005 | 82 | #1,651 | 41.1 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,248 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 74 | #1,674 | 37.5 |
| 2002 | 60 | #1,869 | 30.9 |
| 2001 | 74 | #1,600 | 38.1 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,291 | 50.9 |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,343 | 46.4 |
| 1998 | 91 | #1,301 | 47.6 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,325 | 45.1 |
| 1996 | 104 | #1,140 | 54.9 |
| 1995 | 111 | #1,064 | 58.3 |
| 1994 | 96 | #1,161 | 49.7 |
| 1993 | 114 | #1,029 | 58.1 |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,093 | 50.1 |
| 1991 | 115 | #994 | 56.9 |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,025 | 51.6 |
| 1989 | 120 | #924 | 60.0 |
| 1988 | 103 | #949 | 53.8 |
| 1987 | 116 | #867 | 62.1 |
| 1986 | 91 | #959 | 49.4 |
| 1985 | 84 | #994 | 45.4 |
| 1984 | 85 | #960 | 47.1 |
| 1983 | 90 | #932 | 50.2 |
| 1982 | 111 | #841 | 61.2 |
| 1981 | 106 | #859 | 59.2 |
| 1980 | 122 | #792 | 68.4 |
| 1979 | 98 | #883 | 56.9 |
| 1978 | 111 | #812 | 67.6 |
| 1977 | 92 | #884 | 56.0 |
| 1976 | 85 | #901 | 54.2 |
| 1975 | 78 | #925 | 50.0 |
| 1974 | 103 | #788 | 65.5 |
| 1973 | 77 | #917 | 49.4 |
| 1972 | 96 | #817 | 59.2 |
| 1971 | 94 | #839 | 53.2 |
| 1970 | 117 | #763 | 63.0 |
| 1969 | 92 | #804 | 51.4 |
| 1968 | 75 | #841 | 43.2 |
| 1967 | 58 | #948 | 33.3 |
| 1966 | 56 | #973 | 31.4 |
| 1965 | 62 | #939 | 33.3 |
| 1964 | 61 | #975 | 30.6 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,257 | 18.7 |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,189 | 20.8 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,198 | 20.7 |
| 1960 | 27 | #1,559 | 12.7 |
| 1959 | 24 | #1,633 | 11.2 |
| 1958 | 17 | #1,966 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,403 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,837 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,813 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,538 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,968 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,164 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deric a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deric has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deric: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deric, and how old are they?
4,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 4,744 Americans ever recorded as Deric. The median Deric alive today is 38 years old; half are between 27 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 3,814 people named Deric (14 women and girls, 3,800 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,427 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 230 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,570 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 297 |
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 Deric born?
The states with the most babies named Deric are California, Texas and Ohio, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 458 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 396 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 147 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 107 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 91 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 82 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 73 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 65 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 62 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 47 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Deric 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 431,285 babies since 1880, Deric is the sixth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 2,047 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Deric
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 Deric and names like it
- Compare Deric and DerekBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDeric peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deric since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Deric.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Deric alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.