Derrik
Recorded 1954–2023 · United States
Derrik was most popular in 1991, when 102 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,541 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,142 people named Derrik.
Derrik over time
How old is the name Derrik?
Derrik first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1954, which makes it about 71 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 69 of the 72 years since.
How many people are named Derrik?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,142 American births named Derrik between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,020 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Derrik in 2025?
Derrik was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Derrik getting more or less popular?
Derrik is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 5 births a year across 2021–2025 against 14 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Derrik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Derrik is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 2,142 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Derrik?
Roughly 2,020 Americans named Derrik are alive today — 94% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 36 years old, and half are between 28 and 44.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Derrik is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org