Meaning not yet researched.
Darrick: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #407 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #407 in 1971; #5,916 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darrick in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,916 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #407.
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Darrick: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #407 in 1971 · most boys in one year: 393 (1971).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Darrick, making it the 5,916th most common boys’ name of the year, down 199 places from #5,717 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 16 boys named Darrick in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #407, reached in 1971. That year also had the most boys given the name: 393. For comparison, it was #3,446 in 2015 and #2,346 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darrick in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 6 babies. In all, 8,141 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 3,176 babies named Darrick.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 189 US boys were named Darrick; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Darice, Darick and Daric are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Darice (1,346), Darick (1,257), Daric (607), Darik (520), Darrek (106), Darric (100), Daurice (90), Darrik (90), Dareck (72), Darreck (12).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Darrick in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 15 | #5,916 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,717 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,621 |
| 2022 | — | — | 17 | #5,484 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,811 |
| 2020 | — | — | 21 | #4,572 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #5,880 |
| 2018 | — | — | 21 | #4,635 |
| 2017 | — | — | 19 | #4,979 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,457 |
| 2015 | — | — | 32 | #3,446 |
| 2014 | — | — | 29 | #3,631 |
| 2013 | — | — | 33 | #3,278 |
| 2012 | — | — | 33 | #3,314 |
| 2011 | — | — | 39 | #2,957 |
| 2010 | — | — | 21 | #4,553 |
| 2009 | — | — | 42 | #2,858 |
| 2008 | — | — | 39 | #3,015 |
| 2007 | — | — | 51 | #2,480 |
| 2006 | — | — | 53 | #2,354 |
| 2005 | — | — | 61 | #2,038 |
| 2004 | — | — | 72 | #1,751 |
| 2003 | — | — | 63 | #1,871 |
| 2002 | — | — | 77 | #1,590 |
| 2001 | — | — | 83 | #1,473 |
| 2000 | — | — | 93 | #1,363 |
| 1999 | — | — | 72 | #1,547 |
| 1998 | — | — | 86 | #1,361 |
| 1997 | — | — | 69 | #1,511 |
| 1996 | — | — | 90 | #1,236 |
| 1995 | — | — | 95 | #1,188 |
| 1994 | — | — | 129 | #972 |
| 1993 | — | — | 109 | #1,062 |
| 1992 | — | — | 110 | #1,043 |
| 1991 | — | — | 151 | #847 |
| 1990 | — | — | 154 | #822 |
| 1989 | — | — | 146 | #819 |
| 1988 | — | — | 120 | #866 |
| 1987 | — | — | 113 | #880 |
| 1986 | — | — | 117 | #835 |
| 1985 | — | — | 134 | #766 |
| 1984 | — | — | 123 | #780 |
| 1983 | — | — | 131 | #755 |
| 1982 | — | — | 130 | #774 |
| 1981 | — | — | 153 | #701 |
| 1980 | — | — | 199 | #619 |
| 1979 | — | — | 252 | #533 |
| 1978 | — | — | 355 | #414 |
| 1977 | — | — | 323 | #444 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,621 | 295 | #455 |
| 1975 | — | — | 295 | #470 |
| 1974 | — | — | 288 | #471 |
| 1973 | — | — | 313 | #444 |
| 1972 | — | — | 314 | #447 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,584 | 393 | #407 |
| 1970 | — | — | 337 | #448 |
| 1969 | — | — | 254 | #481 |
| 1968 | — | — | 147 | #623 |
| 1967 | — | — | 147 | #618 |
| 1966 | — | — | 124 | #663 |
| 1965 | — | — | 131 | #651 |
| 1964 | — | — | 100 | #763 |
| 1963 | — | — | 107 | #751 |
| 1962 | — | — | 83 | #833 |
| 1961 | — | — | 72 | #903 |
| 1960 | — | — | 74 | #887 |
| 1959 | — | — | 52 | #1,069 |
| 1958 | — | — | 53 | #1,050 |
| 1957 | — | — | 46 | #1,135 |
| 1956 | — | — | 40 | #1,206 |
| 1955 | — | — | 25 | #1,547 |
| 1954 | — | — | 15 | #2,059 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,422 |
| 1952 | — | — | 14 | #2,091 |
| 1951 | — | — | 12 | #2,275 |
| 1950 | — | — | 11 | #2,346 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,392 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).