first name
DERICK
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 16,739 people named Derick, 43.1% reported their origin as White, 27.6% as Black and 20% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Derick peaked in 1989, when 571 babies got the name.
At least 19,810 babies have been given the name since 1945. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Derick by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #811. The largest share of babies named Derick, 37%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Derick is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Derick has been most common in Florida (1.9×), Louisiana (1.8×), and Georgia (1.5×), and least common in Nebraska (0.32×).
16,316 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Derick
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Derick, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Derick ranks #65,511 of 156,621, with 327 people. See Derick as a last name
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