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Derrick: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 288 in 2025. Its best rank was #74 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #74 in 1980; #850 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Derrick in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#850 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #74.
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Derrick: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 288 boys in 2025. Peak: #74 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 4,135 (1980).
In 2025, 288 US boys were named Derrick, making it the 850th most common boys’ name of the year, down 37 places from #813 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 308 boys named Derrick in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #74, reached in 1980. That year also had the most boys given the name: 4,135. For comparison, it was #384 in 2015 and #512 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Derrick in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 146,344 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 36,668 babies named Derrick.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,926 US boys were named Derrick; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 748. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,931 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Derrick ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #405 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Derek (239,969 babies since 1880), Dick (29,321 babies since 1880), Dirk (10,955 babies since 1880) and Derick (19,810 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Derric, Derryck and Deeric are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Eric, Rick and Ricky.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Derric (1,448), Derryck (219), Deeric (187), Derrich (64), Derrike (55), Dirrick (40), Derice (18), Deerick (16), Dierick (6), Derrice (5).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 12 | #405 | #279 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #431 | #165 |
| Maryland | 11 | #446 | #317 |
| Alabama | 10 | #490 | #246 |
| Georgia | 18 | #572 | #300 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #578 | #445 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #579 | #365 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #655 | #360 |
| Ohio | 13 | #683 | #330 |
| Florida | 23 | #684 | #288 |
| Colorado | 7 | #701 | #601 |
| Indiana | 8 | #726 | #490 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #732 | #318 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #752 | #411 |
| Illinois | 10 | #821 | #309 |
| Texas | 28 | #900 | #355 |
| Missouri | 5 | #900 | #297 |
| Arizona | 5 | #950 | #533 |
| Virginia | 6 | #997 | #399 |
| New York | 12 | #1,006 | #347 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,021 | #267 |
| California | 20 | #1,046 | #439 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 288 | #850 |
| 2024 | — | — | 308 | #813 |
| 2023 | — | — | 344 | #758 |
| 2022 | — | — | 370 | #713 |
| 2021 | — | — | 458 | #606 |
| 2020 | — | — | 518 | #549 |
| 2019 | — | — | 580 | #494 |
| 2018 | — | — | 610 | #479 |
| 2017 | — | — | 702 | #442 |
| 2016 | — | — | 748 | #421 |
| 2015 | — | — | 835 | #384 |
| 2014 | — | — | 914 | #353 |
| 2013 | — | — | 981 | #330 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,053 | #313 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,098 | #301 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,038 | #307 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,115 | #296 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,197 | #285 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,295 | #267 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,362 | #254 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,378 | 1,372 | #245 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,636 | 1,324 | #248 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,761 | 1,378 | #244 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,119 | 1,437 | #236 |
| 2001 | — | — | 1,455 | #232 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,596 | #218 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,040 | 1,614 | #213 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,756 | #194 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,784 | #188 |
| 1996 | — | — | 1,995 | #169 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,960 | 2,190 | #159 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,869 | 2,575 | #136 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,269 | 2,704 | #129 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,793 | 2,914 | #120 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,783 | 3,096 | #111 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,566 | 3,363 | #106 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,622 | 3,442 | #99 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,609 | 3,304 | #97 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,865 | 3,534 | #86 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,525 | 3,326 | #87 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,369 | 3,779 | #83 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,744 | 3,661 | #79 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,677 | 3,656 | #78 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,713 | 3,655 | #78 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,670 | 3,850 | #78 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,616 | 4,135 | #74 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,492 | 3,729 | #80 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,278 | 3,786 | #76 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,266 | 3,481 | #80 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,618 | 2,921 | #91 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,068 | 2,815 | #90 |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,003 | 2,958 | #87 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,581 | 3,054 | #87 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,239 | 3,088 | #91 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,816 | 3,582 | #84 |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,278 | 3,446 | #96 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,310 | 2,936 | #107 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,648 | 2,595 | #116 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,449 | 2,504 | #120 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,205 | 2,438 | #127 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,791 | 2,422 | #129 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,408 | 2,091 | #156 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,892 | 1,948 | #164 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,324 | 1,579 | #191 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,828 | 1,499 | #198 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,532 | 1,180 | #236 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,726 | 1,179 | #231 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,003 | 1,028 | #244 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,564 | 945 | #249 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,951 | 809 | #254 |
| 1955 | — | — | 655 | #278 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,945 | 507 | #320 |
| 1953 | — | — | 359 | #360 |
| 1952 | — | — | 302 | #397 |
| 1951 | — | — | 218 | #459 |
| 1950 | — | — | 171 | #512 |
| 1949 | — | — | 83 | #756 |
| 1948 | — | — | 65 | #847 |
| 1947 | — | — | 46 | #1,066 |
| 1946 | — | — | 27 | #1,361 |
| 1945 | — | — | 21 | #1,456 |
| 1944 | — | — | 23 | #1,407 |
| 1943 | — | — | 30 | #1,262 |
| 1942 | — | — | 14 | #1,971 |
| 1941 | — | — | 16 | #1,778 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,714 |
| 1938 | — | — | 16 | #1,760 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,253 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,240 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #3,047 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,772 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,152 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,906 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,133 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,654 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,819 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,831 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,129 |
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).