Dereck
Dereck is a boy's name that peaked in 2024, when it was the 663rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 688th. About 7,900 Derecks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Dereck
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,296
- Estimated living today
- 7,900
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 663rd
- Rank in 2025
- 688th
- First recorded
- 1949
How old the living Derecks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,296 babies given the name since 1949, about 7,900 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 3,200 of them are children and 180 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Derecks
- Dereck Lively II (born 2004)American basketball player
- Dereck Kutesa (born 1997)Swiss association football player
People named Dereck with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dereck is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dereck is most concentrated in Florida (2.5×), Texas (2.4×), California (2.0×), New York (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Dereck peaked:
Dereck elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Dereck | 250 | 2,149th |
| Ireland boys | Dereck | 69 | 196th |
| England and Wales boys | Dereck | 6 | 4,789th |
| Scotland boys | Dereck | 3 | 284th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Dereck lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 243 men called Dereck were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Dereck | 18 | 0.031 | 2,353 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Dereck | 14 | 0.026 | 2,686 |
| Barcelona | Dereck | 64 | 0.022 | 2,188 |
| Tarragona | Dereck | 8 | 0.018 | 2,561 |
| Balears, Illes | Dereck | 7 | 0.011 | 4,254 |
| Valencia/València | Dereck | 14 | 0.010 | 3,951 |
Listed in 8 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 44 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Dereck against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.