How Many People Are Named Derick?
people named Derick are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 18,360 people in the US has this name
Based on 19,810 babies named Derick in Social Security records from 1945 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
571 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of DEREK.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Derick in English. Counting Derick and these spellings together, about 377,012 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Derick (99.8%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Derick alive today is about 34 years old, and 58% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 22 and 45 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Derick first appears in the records in 1945 and was given most often in 1989, to 571 babies. In 2025, 120 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1945 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Derick has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #338, in 1980. In 2025 it ranked #1,478.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,478 |
| Best rank | #338 (1980) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #372 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Derick alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Derick were born in California than in any other state: about 2,040 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Derick was given 1.8 times as often in Louisiana, 1.7 times in Alabama and 1.6 times in Georgia.
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