Meaning not yet researched.
Deric: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #763 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #763 in 1970; #7,305 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deric in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,305 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #763.
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Deric: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #763 in 1970 · most boys in one year: 122 (1980).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Deric, making it the 7,305th most common boys’ name of the year, up 596 places from #7,901 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 10 boys named Deric in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #763, reached in 1970. The most boys given the name in a single year was 122, in 1980. For comparison, it was #2,934 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deric in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 7 babies. In all, 4,744 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,028 babies named Deric.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 176 US boys were named Deric; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Derek (239,969 babies since 1880), Derrick (146,344 babies since 1880), Derick (19,810 babies since 1880) and Dereck (8,296 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Deric 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 | — | — | 11 | #7,305 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #7,901 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,122 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #6,919 |
| 2021 | — | — | 21 | #4,672 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,047 |
| 2019 | — | — | 23 | #4,369 |
| 2018 | — | — | 26 | #4,018 |
| 2017 | — | — | 22 | #4,505 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,709 |
| 2015 | — | — | 40 | #2,934 |
| 2014 | — | — | 38 | #2,999 |
| 2013 | — | — | 45 | #2,633 |
| 2012 | — | — | 41 | #2,877 |
| 2011 | — | — | 54 | #2,355 |
| 2010 | — | — | 48 | #2,562 |
| 2009 | — | — | 50 | #2,536 |
| 2008 | — | — | 50 | #2,524 |
| 2007 | — | — | 61 | #2,193 |
| 2006 | — | — | 62 | #2,112 |
| 2005 | — | — | 82 | #1,653 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,252 |
| 2003 | — | — | 74 | #1,677 |
| 2002 | — | — | 60 | #1,873 |
| 2001 | — | — | 74 | #1,604 |
| 2000 | — | — | 100 | #1,294 |
| 1999 | — | — | 89 | #1,346 |
| 1998 | — | — | 91 | #1,304 |
| 1997 | — | — | 85 | #1,328 |
| 1996 | — | — | 104 | #1,142 |
| 1995 | — | — | 111 | #1,067 |
| 1994 | — | — | 96 | #1,165 |
| 1993 | — | — | 114 | #1,033 |
| 1992 | — | — | 100 | #1,097 |
| 1991 | — | — | 115 | #1,000 |
| 1990 | — | — | 106 | #1,029 |
| 1989 | — | — | 120 | #927 |
| 1988 | — | — | 103 | #950 |
| 1987 | — | — | 116 | #868 |
| 1986 | — | — | 91 | #960 |
| 1985 | — | — | 84 | #995 |
| 1984 | — | — | 85 | #961 |
| 1983 | — | — | 90 | #932 |
| 1982 | — | — | 111 | #841 |
| 1981 | — | — | 106 | #859 |
| 1980 | — | — | 122 | #792 |
| 1979 | — | — | 98 | #883 |
| 1978 | — | — | 111 | #812 |
| 1977 | — | — | 92 | #884 |
| 1976 | — | — | 85 | #901 |
| 1975 | — | — | 78 | #925 |
| 1974 | — | — | 103 | #788 |
| 1973 | — | — | 77 | #917 |
| 1972 | — | — | 96 | #817 |
| 1971 | — | — | 94 | #839 |
| 1970 | — | — | 117 | #763 |
| 1969 | — | — | 92 | #804 |
| 1968 | — | — | 75 | #841 |
| 1967 | — | — | 58 | #948 |
| 1966 | — | — | 56 | #973 |
| 1965 | — | — | 62 | #939 |
| 1964 | — | — | 61 | #975 |
| 1963 | — | — | 38 | #1,258 |
| 1962 | — | — | 43 | #1,190 |
| 1961 | — | — | 44 | #1,199 |
| 1960 | — | — | 27 | #1,560 |
| 1959 | — | — | 24 | #1,634 |
| 1958 | — | — | 17 | #1,967 |
| 1957 | — | — | 12 | #2,404 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,838 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,814 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,539 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #2,969 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,166 |
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).