Derrek
Derrek was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,494 among boys’ names; 3,047 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,850 Americans named Derrek and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 28 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derrek by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Derrek mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Derrek 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 Derrek?
#12,494 among boys’ names, 2025
Derrek fell from #4,926 in 2015 to #12,494 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 2.9 per million.
128 babies in 1989, the peak
Derrek peaked in 1989, when 128 boys were given it, #889 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,494 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,141 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,855 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,203 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,211 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,301 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,504 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,798 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,786 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,223 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #4,926 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,166 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,212 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,575 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,820 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,739 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,416 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,894 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 38 | #3,039 | 18.3 |
| 2006 | 46 | #2,593 | 22.4 |
| 2005 | 46 | #2,468 | 23.0 |
| 2004 | 48 | #2,351 | 24.2 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,438 | 21.8 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,302 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 45 | #2,252 | 23.2 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,748 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 42 | #2,205 | 21.9 |
| 1998 | 58 | #1,743 | 30.3 |
| 1997 | 58 | #1,694 | 30.8 |
| 1996 | 77 | #1,376 | 40.6 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,430 | 36.2 |
| 1994 | 75 | #1,343 | 38.8 |
| 1993 | 94 | #1,151 | 47.9 |
| 1992 | 89 | #1,176 | 44.6 |
| 1991 | 115 | #995 | 56.9 |
| 1990 | 118 | #956 | 57.4 |
| 1989 | 128 | #889 | 64.0 |
| 1988 | 106 | #929 | 55.4 |
| 1987 | 111 | #891 | 59.5 |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,042 | 43.4 |
| 1985 | 86 | #988 | 46.5 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,191 | 32.7 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,182 | 32.9 |
| 1982 | 78 | #1,024 | 43.0 |
| 1981 | 67 | #1,113 | 37.4 |
| 1980 | 68 | #1,098 | 38.1 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,227 | 32.5 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,289 | 29.8 |
| 1977 | 47 | #1,322 | 28.6 |
| 1976 | 39 | #1,431 | 24.9 |
| 1975 | 34 | #1,536 | 21.8 |
| 1974 | 35 | #1,478 | 22.3 |
| 1973 | 32 | #1,523 | 20.5 |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,100 | 33.9 |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,204 | 26.6 |
| 1970 | 36 | #1,399 | 19.4 |
| 1969 | 30 | #1,471 | 16.8 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,134 | 25.3 |
| 1967 | 25 | #1,546 | 14.3 |
| 1966 | 26 | #1,517 | 14.6 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,298 | 18.8 |
| 1964 | 18 | #1,917 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 20 | #1,805 | 9.8 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,056 | 7.7 |
| 1961 | 24 | #1,653 | 11.3 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,451 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,353 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,289 | 6.1 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,530 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,027 | 3.9 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,896 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,099 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derrek a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derrek 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 Derrek: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derrek, and how old are they?
2,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 3,047 Americans ever recorded as Derrek. The median Derrek alive today is 36 years old; half are between 28 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 2,784 people named Derrek (2 women and girls, 2,782 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,855 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 106 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 584 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 639 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 182 |
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 Derrek born?
The states with the most babies named Derrek are California, Texas and Michigan, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 246 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 140 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 61 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 48 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 32 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Derrek 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 426,564 babies since 1880, Derrek is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 2,027 babies (<1%), again the sixth 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 Derrek
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 Derrek and names like it
- Compare Derrek and DerekBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDerrek peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derrek since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Derrek.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Derrek alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.