Derrick

What Derrick means

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

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #384 in 2015, #850 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Derrick?

US: Falling: down from #384 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #1902 in 2015, #2014 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1980, when 4,135 boys got the name (#74 that year). First in the US records in 1917.

How common

• About 1 in 5,931 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 22,661 baby boys in England and Wales 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 MS (0.65 per 1,000 boys), LA (0.63 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.48 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Derrick is #850 in the US and #2014 in England & Wales (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 Derrick were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Dereck396 US
• Derick120 US · 7 E&W
• Derik27 US
• Darrick15 US
• Deric11 US
• Terrick5 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 Derrick

Boys

• William#9“will + helmet”^*
• Eric#273Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1970, with 23,571 babies; 1,256 in 2025
• Jeffrey#552Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #552 vs #1,705 in 2025
• Raymond#394“advice + protection”^*
• Richard#234“king, ruler + hard, brave”^*
• Robert#92“shining glory”^*

For a sister

• Alison#476“of noble kind”^*
• Linda#902“tender, soft”^*
• Alicia#460Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 7,820 babies; 672 in 2025
• Allison#103Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Alyssa#453“a plant of the genus Alyssum”^*
• Anne#619Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025

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 Derrick’s. Rank is US 2025.