Dereck

What Dereck means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Dereck yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 396 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Dereck?

US: Rising: up from #1353 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 413 boys got the name (#663 that year). First in the US records in 1949.

How common

• About 1 in 4,313 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MD (0.79 per 1,000 boys), CT (0.68 per 1,000 boys), NJ (0.6 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Dereck is #688 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Dereck were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the UK pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Derek1,191 US · 15 E&W
• Derrick288 US · 12 E&W
• Derick120 US · 7 E&W
• Derik27 US
• Darek27 US
• Deric11 US
• Dareck6 US
• Derrek5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Dereck

Boys

• Bo#449Swedish, from Old Norse Búi, meaning “dweller, long-time resident”^*
• Archie#301“anti-aircraft artillery”^*
• Warren#240“river, water”^*
• Conrad#417“bold, brave + counsel”^*
• Lewis#433Same root as Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*

For a sister

• Amalia#566“vigor, bravery”^*
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Evelina#778Editor’s note Up from #1,354 in 2015 to #778 in 2025 in the US
• Alice#65“noble + character”^*
• Astrid#376Danish, from Old Norse Ástríðr, meaning “god + beautiful, originally…^*
• Amelia#4“vigor, bravery”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Dereck’s. Rank is US 2025.