Derrik
Derrik was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 2,142 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,010 Americans named Derrik and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 28 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derrik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Derrik mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Derrik 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 Derrik?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,667, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
102 babies in 1991, the peak
Derrik peaked in 1991, when 102 boys were given it, #1,073 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #12,667 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,802 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,100 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,639 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,080 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,799 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,048 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,439 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,625 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,735 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 13 | #6,331 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,080 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,483 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,436 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,314 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,056 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,854 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,540 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,909 | 18.0 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,959 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,739 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,372 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,338 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,388 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,306 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,164 | 22.0 |
| 1997 | 52 | #1,816 | 27.6 |
| 1996 | 52 | #1,762 | 27.5 |
| 1995 | 55 | #1,649 | 28.9 |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,299 | 41.4 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,378 | 35.7 |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,094 | 50.1 |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,073 | 50.5 |
| 1990 | 98 | #1,072 | 47.7 |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,172 | 41.0 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,189 | 37.6 |
| 1987 | 70 | #1,143 | 37.5 |
| 1986 | 53 | #1,346 | 28.8 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,159 | 35.2 |
| 1984 | 44 | #1,448 | 24.4 |
| 1983 | 44 | #1,431 | 24.5 |
| 1982 | 40 | #1,545 | 22.0 |
| 1981 | 52 | #1,276 | 29.0 |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,188 | 33.1 |
| 1979 | 32 | #1,758 | 18.6 |
| 1978 | 29 | #1,811 | 17.7 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,082 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,352 | 12.1 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,304 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,701 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 25 | #1,790 | 16.0 |
| 1972 | 22 | #1,939 | 13.6 |
| 1971 | 21 | #1,997 | 11.9 |
| 1970 | 32 | #1,502 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 25 | #1,652 | 14.0 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,050 | 9.2 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,509 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,064 | 8.4 |
| 1965 | 24 | #1,598 | 12.9 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,446 | 6.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,335 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,109 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,083 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,233 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,699 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,092 | 3.8 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,280 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,616 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,233 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derrik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derrik has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Derrik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derrik, and how old are they?
2,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,142 Americans ever recorded as Derrik. The median Derrik alive today is 35 years old; half are between 28 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 1,910 people named Derrik (3 women and girls, 1,907 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,025 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 75 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 343 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 465 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 101 |
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 Derrik born?
The states with the most babies named Derrik are California, Texas and Ohio, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 168 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 68 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 40 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Utah | 16 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 10 | 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 Derrik 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, Derrik is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,047 babies recorded by SSA was a Derrik (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 Derrik
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 Derrik and names like it
- Compare Derrik and DerekBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDerrik peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derrik since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Derrik.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Derrik alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.