Derick

Where Derick comes from

The dictionaries list Derick as a given name — a male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Derek — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
Along the way
  1. 1945
    First appearance
    #2,743 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Peak, #338
    546 babies named Derick — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1987
    Derick Brassard born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  4. 1990
    Derick Ogbu born
    Nigerian association football player
  5. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #700.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Derek.
Namesakes
  • Derick Ogbu · Nigerian association football player, born 1990
  • Derick Brassard · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1987
  • Derick Baegert · painter, 1440–1515
  • Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory · British politician and government minister, 1899–1981
  • Derick Martini · American screenwriter and director, born 1972

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.