Derrick

Where Derrick comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Derrick.

  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
Derrick through the years
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,981 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Peak, #74
    4,135 babies named Derrick, the most in any year.
  3. 1988
    Derrick Rose born
    American basketball player
  4. 1995
    Derrick Luckassen born
    Ghanaian-Dutch footballer
  5. 1996
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #169.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Derek.
Namesakes
  • Derrick Rose · American basketball player, born 1988
  • Derrick Luckassen · Ghanaian-Dutch footballer, born 1995
  • Derrick Favors · American basketball player, born 1991
  • Derrick Williams · American basketball player, born 1991
  • Derrick Adkins · American athletics competitor, born 1970

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.