Meaning not yet researched.
Derick: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 120 in 2025. Its best rank was #338 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #338 in 1980; #1,478 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Derick in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,478 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #338.
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Derick: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 120 boys in 2025. Peak: #338 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 571 (1989).
In 2025, 120 US boys were named Derick, making it the 1,478th most common boys’ name of the year, down 40 places from #1,438 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 126 boys named Derick in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #338, reached in 1980. The most boys given the name in a single year was 571, in 1989. For comparison, it was #1,052 in 2015 and #3,097 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Derick in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 7 babies. In all, 19,810 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 4,985 babies named Derick.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,428 US boys were named Derick; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 168. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,234 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Derick ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #811 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Derik (5,508 babies since 1880), Derek (239,969 babies since 1880), Derrick (146,344 babies since 1880) and Dereck (8,296 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Rick and Ricky.
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.
Derick is listed as a nickname for Frederick.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #811 | #523 |
| Maryland | 5 | #835 | #731 |
| Ohio | 8 | #960 | #1,252 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,133 | #1,209 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,141 | #848 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,178 | #863 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,318 | #779 |
| California | 7 | #2,037 | #1,058 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 120 | #1,478 |
| 2024 | — | — | 126 | #1,438 |
| 2023 | — | — | 153 | #1,258 |
| 2022 | — | — | 142 | #1,322 |
| 2021 | — | — | 112 | #1,558 |
| 2020 | — | — | 140 | #1,296 |
| 2019 | — | — | 138 | #1,322 |
| 2018 | — | — | 161 | #1,182 |
| 2017 | — | — | 168 | #1,133 |
| 2016 | — | — | 168 | #1,145 |
| 2015 | — | — | 189 | #1,052 |
| 2014 | — | — | 190 | #1,050 |
| 2013 | — | — | 191 | #1,024 |
| 2012 | — | — | 227 | #913 |
| 2011 | — | — | 267 | #816 |
| 2010 | — | — | 261 | #821 |
| 2009 | — | — | 263 | #829 |
| 2008 | — | — | 311 | #736 |
| 2007 | — | — | 343 | #691 |
| 2006 | — | — | 290 | #736 |
| 2005 | — | — | 292 | #703 |
| 2004 | — | — | 273 | #704 |
| 2003 | — | — | 271 | #700 |
| 2002 | — | — | 284 | #658 |
| 2001 | — | — | 286 | #653 |
| 2000 | — | — | 309 | #616 |
| 1999 | — | — | 303 | #605 |
| 1998 | — | — | 344 | #568 |
| 1997 | — | — | 332 | #566 |
| 1996 | — | — | 325 | #562 |
| 1995 | — | — | 334 | #559 |
| 1994 | — | — | 407 | #498 |
| 1993 | — | — | 410 | #503 |
| 1992 | — | — | 428 | #485 |
| 1991 | — | — | 420 | #481 |
| 1990 | — | — | 561 | #412 |
| 1989 | — | — | 571 | #387 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,706 | 511 | #385 |
| 1987 | — | — | 484 | #391 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,854 | 452 | #400 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,084 | 449 | #401 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,430 | 469 | #376 |
| 1983 | — | — | 498 | #356 |
| 1982 | — | — | 489 | #365 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,822 | 488 | #360 |
| 1980 | — | — | 546 | #338 |
| 1979 | — | — | 490 | #360 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,144 | 414 | #382 |
| 1977 | — | — | 310 | #456 |
| 1976 | — | — | 317 | #438 |
| 1975 | — | — | 270 | #487 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,936 | 273 | #481 |
| 1973 | — | — | 292 | #457 |
| 1972 | — | — | 343 | #429 |
| 1971 | — | — | 266 | #496 |
| 1970 | — | — | 281 | #481 |
| 1969 | — | — | 211 | #541 |
| 1968 | — | — | 214 | #517 |
| 1967 | — | — | 225 | #502 |
| 1966 | — | — | 203 | #533 |
| 1965 | — | — | 178 | #573 |
| 1964 | — | — | 150 | #635 |
| 1963 | — | — | 131 | #680 |
| 1962 | — | — | 121 | #697 |
| 1961 | — | — | 99 | #775 |
| 1960 | — | — | 89 | #810 |
| 1959 | — | — | 80 | #846 |
| 1958 | — | — | 77 | #864 |
| 1957 | — | — | 66 | #929 |
| 1956 | — | — | 44 | #1,145 |
| 1955 | — | — | 33 | #1,317 |
| 1954 | — | — | 18 | #1,843 |
| 1953 | — | — | 19 | #1,779 |
| 1952 | — | — | 16 | #1,960 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,712 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,097 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,407 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,362 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,860 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,811 |
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).