Derik
#3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 186 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,508since 1952
Derik over time
Rank among boys' names. Derik has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,949 | 27 |
| 2024 | #3,394 | 34 |
| 2023 | #3,293 | 36 |
| 2022 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #3,242 | 36 |
| 2020 | #3,918 | 26 |
| 2019 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | #3,708 | 29 |
| 2017 | #4,105 | 25 |
| 2016 | #3,883 | 27 |
| 2015 | #3,591 | 30 |
| 2014 | #3,532 | 30 |
| 2013 | #2,594 | 46 |
| 2012 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2011 | #2,437 | 51 |
| 2010 | #2,169 | 61 |
| 2009 | #2,287 | 57 |
| 2008 | #1,838 | 79 |
| 2007 | #1,669 | 91 |
| 2006 | #1,738 | 80 |
| 2005 | #1,595 | 86 |
| 2004 | #1,565 | 84 |
| 2003 | #1,538 | 83 |
| 2002 | #1,557 | 79 |
| 2001 | #1,648 | 71 |
| 2000 | #1,830 | 58 |
| 1999 | #1,477 | 77 |
| 1998 | #1,301 | 91 |
| 1997 | #1,242 | 93 |
| 1996 | #1,246 | 89 |
| 1995 | #970 | 130 |
| 1994 | #1,005 | 122 |
| 1993 | #979 | 122 |
| 1992 | #906 | 136 |
| 1991 | #784 | 171 |
| 1990 | #732 | 194 |
| 1989 | #778 | 163 |
| 1988 | #749 | 160 |
| 1987 | #654 | 198 |
| 1986 | #751 | 146 |
| 1985 | #674 | 173 |
| 1984 | #713 | 149 |
| 1983 | #679 | 158 |
| 1982 | #700 | 154 |
| 1981 | #677 | 163 |
| 1980 | #638 | 186 |
| 1979 | #794 | 119 |
| 1978 | #854 | 101 |
| 1977 | #909 | 87 |
| 1976 | #933 | 80 |
| 1975 | #970 | 71 |
| 1974 | #1,035 | 63 |
| 1973 | #834 | 91 |
| 1972 | #859 | 87 |
| 1971 | #859 | 90 |
| 1970 | #891 | 82 |
| 1969 | #903 | 71 |
| 1968 | #1,034 | 51 |
| 1967 | #910 | 63 |
| 1966 | #1,237 | 37 |
| 1965 | #1,144 | 43 |
| 1964 | #1,545 | 26 |
| 1963 | #1,305 | 36 |
| 1962 | #1,896 | 18 |
| 1961 | #1,602 | 25 |
| 1960 | #2,121 | 15 |
| 1959 | #2,414 | 12 |
| 1958 | #2,265 | 13 |
| 1957 | #2,822 | 9 |
| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
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| 1952 | #3,095 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Derik! It came in at #3,095, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1954, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Derik
- 555 spots since 2024 (#3,394 → #3,949)
- 31 spots since 2020 (#3,918 → #3,949)
- 358 spots since 2015 (#3,591 → #3,949)
- Biggest jump: 327 spots in 1967 (#1,237 → #910)
- Biggest drop: 276 spots in 1996 (#970 → #1,246)
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1980 at #638 (186 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1975–1993
- Highest: 1 in 9,429 boys born in 1987 were named Derik (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #638 in 1980, was only 1 in 9,591 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.0% of all boys named Derik (1,650) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 59 | #2,265 (1958) | #2,687 |
| 1960s | 385 | #903 (1969) | #1,370 |
| 1970s | 871 | #794 (1979) | #894 |
| 1980s | 1,650 | #638 (1980) | #701 |
| 1990s | 1,225 | #732 (1990) | #1,064 |
| 2000s | 768 | #1,538 (2003) | #1,727 |
| 2010s | 364 | #2,169 (2010) | #3,317 |
| 2020s | 186 | #3,242 (2021) | #3,632 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Derik in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 9,429 of them was named Derik, which outranked 92.0% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.