Derick
Derick was given to 120 boys in 2025, #1,478 among boys’ names; 19,810 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,600 Americans named Derick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 23 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Derick mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Derick is “a male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Derek.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Derick?
#1,478 among boys’ names, 2025
Derick fell from #1,052 in 2015 to #1,478 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 98.6 to 70.3 per million.
571 babies in 1989, the peak
Derick peaked in 1989, when 571 boys were given it, #387 among boys’ names. The 120 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 120 | #1,478 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 126 | #1,438 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 153 | #1,258 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 142 | #1,322 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,558 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 140 | #1,296 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 138 | #1,322 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 161 | #1,182 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 168 | #1,133 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 168 | #1,145 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 189 | #1,052 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 190 | #1,050 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 191 | #1,024 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 227 | #913 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 267 | #816 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 261 | #821 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 263 | #829 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 311 | #736 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 343 | #691 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 290 | #736 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 292 | #703 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 273 | #704 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 271 | #700 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 284 | #658 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 286 | #653 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 309 | #616 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 303 | #604 | 0.16 |
| 1998 | 344 | #568 | 0.18 |
| 1997 | 332 | #566 | 0.18 |
| 1996 | 325 | #562 | 0.17 |
| 1995 | 334 | #558 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 407 | #498 | 0.21 |
| 1993 | 410 | #503 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 428 | #485 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 420 | #481 | 0.21 |
| 1990 | 561 | #411 | 0.27 |
| 1989 | 571 | #387 | 0.29 |
| 1988 | 511 | #385 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 484 | #391 | 0.26 |
| 1986 | 452 | #400 | 0.25 |
| 1985 | 449 | #401 | 0.24 |
| 1984 | 469 | #376 | 0.26 |
| 1983 | 498 | #356 | 0.28 |
| 1982 | 489 | #365 | 0.27 |
| 1981 | 488 | #360 | 0.27 |
| 1980 | 546 | #338 | 0.31 |
| 1979 | 490 | #360 | 0.28 |
| 1978 | 414 | #382 | 0.25 |
| 1977 | 310 | #456 | 0.19 |
| 1976 | 317 | #438 | 0.20 |
| 1975 | 270 | #487 | 0.17 |
| 1974 | 273 | #481 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 292 | #457 | 0.19 |
| 1972 | 343 | #429 | 0.21 |
| 1971 | 266 | #496 | 0.15 |
| 1970 | 281 | #481 | 0.15 |
| 1969 | 211 | #541 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 214 | #517 | 0.12 |
| 1967 | 225 | #502 | 0.13 |
| 1966 | 203 | #533 | 0.11 |
| 1965 | 178 | #573 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 150 | #635 | 0.08 |
| 1963 | 131 | #680 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 121 | #697 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 99 | #774 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 89 | #809 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 80 | #845 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 77 | #863 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 66 | #928 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,144 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,316 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,842 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 19 | #1,778 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,959 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,711 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,096 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,361 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,858 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,810 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derick has been given almost only to boys: 39 girls in 80 years of records.
Girls and boys named Derick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derick, and how old are they?
18,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 19,810 Americans ever recorded as Derick. The median Derick alive today is 36 years old; half are between 23 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 16,739 people named Derick (52 women and girls, 16,687 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,147 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 728 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,320 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,950 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,980 |
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 Derick born?
The states with the most babies named Derick are Texas, Florida and Ohio, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,178 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,141 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 8 | #960 | 0.7× |
| California | 7 | #2,037 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,133 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,318 | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #811 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 5 | #835 | 0.7× |
Where Derick is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Derick is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1945 it was given 1.4 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 Derick 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, Derick is the third most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 120 of their 2,052 babies (5.8%), the fourth 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 Derick
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 Derick and names like it
- Compare Derick and DerekBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDerick peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derick since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Derick.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Derick alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.