Meaning not yet researched.
Dirk: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #341 in 1954.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #341 in 1954; #4,747 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dirk in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,747 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1954, at #341.
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Dirk: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 boys in 2025. Peak: #341 in 1954 · most boys in one year: 438 (1954).
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Dirk, making it the 4,747th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,189 places from #6,936 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 12 boys named Dirk in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #341, reached in 1954. That year also had the most boys given the name: 438. For comparison, it was #4,105 in 2015 and #707 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dirk in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 6 babies. In all, 10,955 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 3,310 babies named Dirk.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 223 US boys were named Dirk; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 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) and Dick (29,321 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dirck, Theodoric and Derck are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dirck (102), Theodoric (61), Derck (23), Dyrk (10).
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 Dirk 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 | — | — | 21 | #4,747 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #6,936 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #4,924 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,075 |
| 2021 | — | — | 19 | #4,973 |
| 2020 | — | — | 25 | #4,046 |
| 2019 | — | — | 31 | #3,589 |
| 2018 | — | — | 18 | #5,154 |
| 2017 | — | — | 34 | #3,331 |
| 2016 | — | — | 24 | #4,226 |
| 2015 | — | — | 25 | #4,105 |
| 2014 | — | — | 27 | #3,819 |
| 2013 | — | — | 26 | #3,889 |
| 2012 | — | — | 27 | #3,824 |
| 2011 | — | — | 40 | #2,916 |
| 2010 | — | — | 27 | #3,839 |
| 2009 | — | — | 38 | #3,064 |
| 2008 | — | — | 42 | #2,843 |
| 2007 | — | — | 43 | #2,772 |
| 2006 | — | — | 46 | #2,595 |
| 2005 | — | — | 50 | #2,340 |
| 2004 | — | — | 27 | #3,477 |
| 2003 | — | — | 47 | #2,286 |
| 2002 | — | — | 25 | #3,477 |
| 2001 | — | — | 33 | #2,820 |
| 2000 | — | — | 44 | #2,231 |
| 1999 | — | — | 46 | #2,072 |
| 1998 | — | — | 45 | #2,078 |
| 1997 | — | — | 32 | #2,508 |
| 1996 | — | — | 60 | #1,621 |
| 1995 | — | — | 49 | #1,785 |
| 1994 | — | — | 57 | #1,615 |
| 1993 | — | — | 67 | #1,422 |
| 1992 | — | — | 67 | #1,384 |
| 1991 | — | — | 76 | #1,282 |
| 1990 | — | — | 82 | #1,206 |
| 1989 | — | — | 107 | #986 |
| 1988 | — | — | 115 | #891 |
| 1987 | — | — | 100 | #943 |
| 1986 | — | — | 106 | #884 |
| 1985 | — | — | 112 | #852 |
| 1984 | — | — | 122 | #785 |
| 1983 | — | — | 128 | #766 |
| 1982 | — | — | 97 | #909 |
| 1981 | — | — | 121 | #797 |
| 1980 | — | — | 148 | #714 |
| 1979 | — | — | 176 | #643 |
| 1978 | — | — | 102 | #849 |
| 1977 | — | — | 115 | #798 |
| 1976 | — | — | 122 | #753 |
| 1975 | — | — | 159 | #650 |
| 1974 | — | — | 180 | #597 |
| 1973 | — | — | 159 | #625 |
| 1972 | — | — | 164 | #615 |
| 1971 | — | — | 277 | #483 |
| 1970 | — | — | 342 | #442 |
| 1969 | — | — | 343 | #425 |
| 1968 | — | — | 330 | #425 |
| 1967 | — | — | 312 | #429 |
| 1966 | — | — | 298 | #444 |
| 1965 | — | — | 302 | #446 |
| 1964 | — | — | 333 | #438 |
| 1963 | — | — | 336 | #436 |
| 1962 | — | — | 314 | #446 |
| 1961 | — | — | 379 | #405 |
| 1960 | — | — | 363 | #417 |
| 1959 | — | — | 371 | #412 |
| 1958 | — | — | 314 | #444 |
| 1957 | — | — | 369 | #405 |
| 1956 | — | — | 365 | #395 |
| 1955 | — | — | 377 | #371 |
| 1954 | — | — | 438 | #341 |
| 1953 | — | — | 150 | #587 |
| 1952 | — | — | 109 | #662 |
| 1951 | — | — | 101 | #698 |
| 1950 | — | — | 94 | #707 |
| 1949 | — | — | 78 | #779 |
| 1948 | — | — | 47 | #1,027 |
| 1947 | — | — | 52 | #985 |
| 1946 | — | — | 36 | #1,160 |
| 1945 | — | — | 33 | #1,142 |
| 1944 | — | — | 32 | #1,176 |
| 1943 | — | — | 32 | #1,223 |
| 1942 | — | — | 31 | #1,253 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,708 |
| 1940 | — | — | 20 | #1,532 |
| 1939 | — | — | 28 | #1,244 |
| 1938 | — | — | 19 | #1,574 |
| 1937 | — | — | 20 | #1,546 |
| 1936 | — | — | 16 | #1,745 |
| 1935 | — | — | 19 | #1,603 |
| 1934 | — | — | 15 | #1,878 |
| 1933 | — | — | 18 | #1,662 |
| 1932 | — | — | 23 | #1,477 |
| 1931 | — | — | 17 | #1,787 |
| 1930 | — | — | 13 | #2,209 |
| 1929 | — | — | 15 | #2,024 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,899 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,349 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,457 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,471 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,582 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,393 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #3,974 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,834 |
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).