first name
DERRICK
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 110,568 people named Derrick, 54.6% reported their origin as Black, 31.5% as White and 5.7% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Derrick peaked in 1980, when 4,171 babies got the name.
At least 146,344 babies have been given the name since 1917. 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.
Derrick by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #163. The largest share of babies named Derrick, 35.1%, 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 Derrick is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Derrick has been most common in District of Columbia (3.1×), Louisiana (2.5×), and Mississippi (2.3×), and least common in New Hampshire (0.14×).
143,337 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 Derrick
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Derrick, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Derrick ranks #3,988 of 156,621, with 8,633 people. See Derrick as a last name
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