Derreck
Derreck was last recorded in 2021, when 12 babies were given it; 1,374 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Derreck and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 29 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derreck by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Derreck mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Derreck 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 Derreck?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,797, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 1990, the peak
Derreck peaked in 1990, when 49 boys were given it, #1,661 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | #6,797 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,498 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,620 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,632 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,047 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,667 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,198 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,683 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,330 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,677 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | #5,482 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,714 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,330 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,301 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,713 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,560 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,356 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,453 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,381 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,813 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,162 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,800 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,726 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,945 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,626 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,607 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,121 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,894 | 22.8 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,058 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 37 | #2,095 | 18.5 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,101 | 17.3 |
| 1990 | 49 | #1,661 | 23.9 |
| 1989 | 39 | #1,897 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 36 | #1,853 | 18.8 |
| 1987 | 42 | #1,638 | 22.5 |
| 1986 | 34 | #1,801 | 18.5 |
| 1985 | 45 | #1,492 | 24.3 |
| 1984 | 35 | #1,662 | 19.4 |
| 1983 | 45 | #1,403 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 35 | #1,679 | 19.3 |
| 1981 | 34 | #1,700 | 19.0 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,071 | 14.6 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,842 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 29 | #1,810 | 17.7 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,020 | 14.6 |
| 1976 | 13 | #2,979 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 27 | #1,798 | 17.3 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,065 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 24 | #1,833 | 15.4 |
| 1972 | 20 | #2,033 | 12.3 |
| 1971 | 27 | #1,718 | 15.3 |
| 1970 | 32 | #1,501 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,874 | 11.2 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,222 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 20 | #1,770 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 19 | #1,767 | 10.7 |
| 1965 | 17 | #1,939 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,339 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,225 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,713 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,945 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,422 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,877 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,347 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,320 | 3.2 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,000 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derreck a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derreck has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Derreck: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derreck, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,374 Americans ever recorded as Derreck. The median Derreck alive today is 38 years old; half are between 29 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,115 people named Derreck (6 women and girls, 1,109 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 61 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 322 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 570 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 254 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 71 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 425,454 babies since 1880, Derreck is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,014 babies recorded by SSA was a Derreck (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Derreck
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 Derreck and names like it
- Compare Derreck and DerekBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDerreck peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derreck since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Derreck.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Derreck alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.