Meaning not yet researched.
Derrik: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,076 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #1,076 in 1990. No US babies were recorded with the name Derrik in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #1,076 in 1990.
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Derrik: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,076 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 102 (1991).
Fewer than five US boys were named Derrik in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,076, reached in 1990. The most boys given the name in a single year was 102, in 1991. For comparison, it was #7,630 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Derrik in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 7 babies. In all, 2,142 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 690 babies named Derrik.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 67 US boys were named Derrik; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 13.
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 Derrik 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #12,672 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5 | #12,808 |
| 2021 | — | — | 6 | #11,106 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,644 |
| 2019 | — | — | 8 | #9,085 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #6,803 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,053 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,444 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,630 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,740 |
| 2013 | — | — | 13 | #6,336 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,086 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,488 |
| 2010 | — | — | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2009 | — | — | 23 | #4,316 |
| 2008 | — | — | 25 | #4,059 |
| 2007 | — | — | 19 | #4,856 |
| 2006 | — | — | 29 | #3,542 |
| 2005 | — | — | 36 | #2,913 |
| 2004 | — | — | 34 | #2,963 |
| 2003 | — | — | 36 | #2,743 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,377 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,343 |
| 2000 | — | — | 40 | #2,392 |
| 1999 | — | — | 39 | #2,309 |
| 1998 | — | — | 42 | #2,167 |
| 1997 | — | — | 52 | #1,819 |
| 1996 | — | — | 52 | #1,766 |
| 1995 | — | — | 55 | #1,654 |
| 1994 | — | — | 80 | #1,303 |
| 1993 | — | — | 70 | #1,383 |
| 1992 | — | — | 100 | #1,098 |
| 1991 | — | — | 102 | #1,079 |
| 1990 | — | — | 98 | #1,076 |
| 1989 | — | — | 82 | #1,176 |
| 1988 | — | — | 72 | #1,192 |
| 1987 | — | — | 70 | #1,144 |
| 1986 | — | — | 53 | #1,347 |
| 1985 | — | — | 65 | #1,160 |
| 1984 | — | — | 44 | #1,449 |
| 1983 | — | — | 44 | #1,432 |
| 1982 | — | — | 40 | #1,546 |
| 1981 | — | — | 52 | #1,276 |
| 1980 | — | — | 59 | #1,188 |
| 1979 | — | — | 32 | #1,758 |
| 1978 | — | — | 29 | #1,811 |
| 1977 | — | — | 23 | #2,082 |
| 1976 | — | — | 19 | #2,353 |
| 1975 | — | — | 19 | #2,305 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,703 |
| 1973 | — | — | 25 | #1,790 |
| 1972 | — | — | 22 | #1,939 |
| 1971 | — | — | 21 | #1,998 |
| 1970 | — | — | 32 | #1,503 |
| 1969 | — | — | 25 | #1,653 |
| 1968 | — | — | 16 | #2,051 |
| 1967 | — | — | 11 | #2,510 |
| 1966 | — | — | 15 | #2,065 |
| 1965 | — | — | 24 | #1,599 |
| 1964 | — | — | 12 | #2,447 |
| 1963 | — | — | 13 | #2,336 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,110 |
| 1961 | — | — | 16 | #2,084 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,234 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,700 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,093 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,281 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,617 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,234 |
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).