Derick
Last seen for girls in 1988 at #10,386 · #1,477 for boys in 2025, 120 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 546 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 19,771since 1945
Derick over time
Rank among boys' names. Derick has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,477 | 120 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,438 | 126 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,258 | 153 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,322 | 142 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,554 | 112 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,295 | 140 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,322 | 138 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,181 | 161 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,132 | 168 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,145 | 168 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,049 | 189 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,048 | 190 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,020 | 191 | |
| 2012 | — | #909 | 227 | |
| 2011 | — | #816 | 267 | |
| 2010 | — | #820 | 261 | |
| 2009 | — | #828 | 263 | |
| 2008 | — | #736 | 311 | |
| 2007 | — | #691 | 343 | |
| 2006 | — | #735 | 290 | |
| 2005 | — | #703 | 292 | |
| 2004 | — | #704 | 273 | |
| 2003 | — | #700 | 271 | |
| 2002 | — | #657 | 284 | |
| 2001 | — | #652 | 286 | |
| 2000 | — | #616 | 309 | |
| 1999 | — | #605 | 303 | |
| 1998 | — | #567 | 344 | |
| 1997 | — | #566 | 332 | |
| 1996 | — | #562 | 325 | |
| 1995 | — | #558 | 334 | |
| 1994 | — | #498 | 407 | |
| 1993 | — | #503 | 410 | |
| 1992 | — | #485 | 428 | |
| 1991 | — | #481 | 420 | |
| 1990 | — | #412 | 561 | |
| 1989 | — | #387 | 571 | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #385 | 511 |
| 1987 | — | #391 | 484 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #400 | 452 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #401 | 449 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #376 | 469 |
| 1983 | — | #356 | 498 | |
| 1982 | — | #365 | 489 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #360 | 488 |
| 1980 | — | #338 | 546 | |
| 1979 | — | #359 | 490 | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #382 | 414 |
| 1977 | — | #456 | 310 | |
| 1976 | — | #438 | 317 | |
| 1975 | — | #487 | 270 | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #481 | 273 |
| 1973 | — | #457 | 292 | |
| 1972 | — | #427 | 343 | |
| 1971 | — | #496 | 266 | |
| 1970 | — | #481 | 281 | |
| 1969 | — | #540 | 211 | |
| 1968 | — | #516 | 214 | |
| 1967 | — | #501 | 225 | |
| 1966 | — | #533 | 203 | |
| 1965 | — | #573 | 178 | |
| 1964 | — | #635 | 150 | |
| 1963 | — | #680 | 131 | |
| 1962 | — | #697 | 121 | |
| 1961 | — | #773 | 99 | |
| 1960 | — | #808 | 89 | |
| 1959 | — | #843 | 80 | |
| 1958 | — | #863 | 77 | |
| 1957 | — | #928 | 66 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,140 | 44 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,313 | 33 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,826 | 18 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,765 | 19 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,939 | 16 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,662 | 9 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,326 | 11 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
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| 1945 | — | #2,743 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Derick! It came in at #2,743, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1947, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Derick is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#157 · 1 in 996
- Mississippi#173 · 1 in 996
- Georgia#187 · 1 in 1,155
- Alabama#204 · 1 in 1,350
- North Carolina#224 · 1 in 1,565
Best ever in a state: #116 in Rhode Island, 1984.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #157 | 16 | 1 in 996 |
| Mississippi | #173 | 19 | 1 in 996 |
| Georgia | #187 | 34 | 1 in 1,155 |
| Alabama | #204 | 20 | 1 in 1,350 |
| North Carolina | #224 | 24 | 1 in 1,565 |
| Tennessee | #234 | 17 | 1 in 1,933 |
| Louisiana | #237 | 26 | 1 in 1,342 |
| Nebraska | #238 | 5 | 1 in 2,391 |
| Maryland | #249 | 10 | 1 in 2,266 |
| West Virginia | #249 | 5 | 1 in 2,779 |
| South Carolina | #261 | 12 | 1 in 1,755 |
| Kansas | #290 | 6 | 1 in 2,805 |
| Missouri | #293 | 12 | 1 in 3,061 |
| Florida | #294 | 24 | 1 in 2,281 |
| Minnesota | #299 | 7 | 1 in 4,447 |
| Indiana | #300 | 12 | 1 in 3,422 |
| Oklahoma | #301 | 8 | 1 in 2,668 |
| Utah | #315 | 6 | 1 in 3,169 |
| Oregon | #319 | 6 | 1 in 3,227 |
| Michigan | #332 | 17 | 1 in 3,943 |
| Virginia | #336 | 10 | 1 in 3,327 |
| New Jersey | #347 | 12 | 1 in 3,537 |
| Washington | #356 | 8 | 1 in 3,705 |
| Wisconsin | #359 | 6 | 1 in 5,755 |
| Massachusetts | #369 | 5 | 1 in 6,783 |
| Texas | #377 | 41 | 1 in 3,008 |
| Pennsylvania | #405 | 11 | 1 in 6,915 |
| Illinois | #407 | 19 | 1 in 4,408 |
| Ohio | #411 | 13 | 1 in 6,184 |
| New York | #470 | 20 | 1 in 5,551 |
| California | #575 | 24 | 1 in 7,489 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Derick
- 39 spots since 2024 (#1,438 → #1,477)
- 182 spots since 2020 (#1,295 → #1,477)
- 428 spots since 2015 (#1,049 → #1,477)
- Biggest jump: 212 spots in 1957 (#1,140 → #928)
- Biggest drop: 111 spots in 2013 (#909 → #1,020)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1980 at #338 (546 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 56 yrs · run 1957–2012
- Highest: 1 in 3,267 boys born in 1980 were named Derick (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,234 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 25.1% of all boys named Derick (4,957) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 29 | #2,326 (1948) | #3,025 |
| 1950s | 369 | #843 (1959) | #1,630 |
| 1960s | 1,621 | #501 (1967) | #626 |
| 1970s | 3,256 | #359 (1979) | #446 |
| 1980s | 4,957 | #338 (1980) | #376 |
| 1990s | 3,864 | #412 (1990) | #524 |
| 2000s | 2,922 | #616 (2000) | #702 |
| 2010s | 1,960 | #816 (2011) | #1,044 |
| 2020s | 793 | #1,258 (2023) | #1,391 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Derick in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 3,513 of them was named Derick, which outranked 94.9% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.