Derik
Derik was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,972 among boys’ names; 5,508 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,170 Americans named Derik and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 26 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derik?
#3,972 among boys’ names, 2025
Derik fell from #3,605 in 2015 to #3,972 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 15.7 to 15.8 per million.
198 babies in 1987, the peak
Derik peaked in 1987, when 198 boys were given it, #654 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,972 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 34 | #3,406 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 36 | #3,309 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,011 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,255 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,943 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,366 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,724 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,132 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,907 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,605 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,551 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 46 | #2,598 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 42 | #2,830 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,446 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,175 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 57 | #2,297 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 79 | #1,843 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 91 | #1,672 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 80 | #1,742 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 86 | #1,595 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 84 | #1,566 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 83 | #1,537 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 79 | #1,559 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 71 | #1,644 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 58 | #1,832 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 77 | #1,476 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 91 | #1,302 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 93 | #1,240 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 89 | #1,247 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 130 | #970 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 122 | #1,001 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 122 | #977 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 136 | #904 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 171 | #781 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 194 | #730 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 163 | #775 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 160 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 198 | #654 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 146 | #751 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 173 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 149 | #713 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 158 | #679 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 154 | #700 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 163 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 186 | #638 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 119 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 101 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 87 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 80 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 71 | #974 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 63 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 91 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 87 | #859 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 90 | #861 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 82 | #892 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 71 | #905 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,038 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 63 | #910 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,243 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,147 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 26 | #1,552 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,311 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,906 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 25 | #1,608 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,152 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,445 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,874 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,022 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,615 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,165 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derik has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Derik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derik, and how old are they?
5,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 5,508 Americans ever recorded as Derik. The median Derik alive today is 37 years old; half are between 26 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 4,626 people named Derik (7 women and girls, 4,619 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,087 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 135 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,180 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 393 |
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 Derik born?
The states with the most babies named Derik are California, Texas and New York, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 601 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 389 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 169 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 167 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 158 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 104 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 97 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 89 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 85 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 80 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Derik with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Derik?
Derik is a less common spelling of Derrick: SSA has recorded 5,508 Derik and 146,344 Derrick since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 432,190 babies since 1880, Derik is the fifth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 2,052 babies (1.3%), again the fifth most given.
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 Derik
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 Derik and names like it
- Compare Derik and DerrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDerik peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derik since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Derik.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Derik alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.