Meaning not yet researched.
Derrek: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #892 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #892 in 1989; #12,498 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Derrek in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,498 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #892.
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Derrek: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #892 in 1989 · most boys in one year: 128 (1989).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Derrek, making it the 12,498th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,352 places from #10,146 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 7 boys named Derrek in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #892, reached in 1989. That year also had the most boys given the name: 128. For comparison, it was #4,928 in 2015 and #3,100 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Derrek in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 7 babies. In all, 3,047 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 842 babies named Derrek.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 117 US boys were named Derrek; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 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 Derrek in the open dataset we use.
Derrek is listed as a nickname for Derek.
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 | — | — | 5 | #12,498 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,146 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #7,860 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,209 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,216 |
| 2020 | — | — | 17 | #5,305 |
| 2019 | — | — | 13 | #6,509 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #6,802 |
| 2017 | — | — | 12 | #6,790 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,224 |
| 2015 | — | — | 19 | #4,928 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,169 |
| 2013 | — | — | 23 | #4,214 |
| 2012 | — | — | 21 | #4,579 |
| 2011 | — | — | 27 | #3,822 |
| 2010 | — | — | 28 | #3,740 |
| 2009 | — | — | 32 | #3,418 |
| 2008 | — | — | 41 | #2,895 |
| 2007 | — | — | 38 | #3,041 |
| 2006 | — | — | 46 | #2,594 |
| 2005 | — | — | 46 | #2,472 |
| 2004 | — | — | 48 | #2,355 |
| 2003 | — | — | 43 | #2,442 |
| 2002 | — | — | 45 | #2,306 |
| 2001 | — | — | 45 | #2,256 |
| 2000 | — | — | 33 | #2,753 |
| 1999 | — | — | 42 | #2,208 |
| 1998 | — | — | 58 | #1,746 |
| 1997 | — | — | 58 | #1,697 |
| 1996 | — | — | 77 | #1,378 |
| 1995 | — | — | 69 | #1,435 |
| 1994 | — | — | 75 | #1,347 |
| 1993 | — | — | 94 | #1,155 |
| 1992 | — | — | 89 | #1,180 |
| 1991 | — | — | 115 | #1,001 |
| 1990 | — | — | 118 | #960 |
| 1989 | — | — | 128 | #892 |
| 1988 | — | — | 106 | #930 |
| 1987 | — | — | 111 | #892 |
| 1986 | — | — | 80 | #1,043 |
| 1985 | — | — | 86 | #989 |
| 1984 | — | — | 59 | #1,192 |
| 1983 | — | — | 59 | #1,182 |
| 1982 | — | — | 78 | #1,024 |
| 1981 | — | — | 67 | #1,113 |
| 1980 | — | — | 68 | #1,098 |
| 1979 | — | — | 56 | #1,227 |
| 1978 | — | — | 49 | #1,289 |
| 1977 | — | — | 47 | #1,322 |
| 1976 | — | — | 39 | #1,431 |
| 1975 | — | — | 34 | #1,537 |
| 1974 | — | — | 35 | #1,478 |
| 1973 | — | — | 32 | #1,523 |
| 1972 | — | — | 55 | #1,100 |
| 1971 | — | — | 47 | #1,204 |
| 1970 | — | — | 36 | #1,400 |
| 1969 | — | — | 30 | #1,471 |
| 1968 | — | — | 44 | #1,134 |
| 1967 | — | — | 25 | #1,547 |
| 1966 | — | — | 26 | #1,518 |
| 1965 | — | — | 35 | #1,298 |
| 1964 | — | — | 18 | #1,918 |
| 1963 | — | — | 20 | #1,806 |
| 1962 | — | — | 16 | #2,057 |
| 1961 | — | — | 24 | #1,654 |
| 1960 | — | — | 12 | #2,452 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,354 |
| 1958 | — | — | 13 | #2,290 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,531 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,028 |
| 1951 | — | — | 8 | #2,897 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,100 |
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).