Derk
The boy's name Derk has been in the national records since 1950, with 506 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1993. About 430 Derks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Derk
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 506
- Estimated living today
- 430
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1967
- Best rank
- 1,476th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1950
How old the living Derks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 506 babies given the name since 1950, about 430 are alive — 85 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 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.
Notable Derks
- Derk Boerrigter (born 1986)Dutch association football player
People named Derk with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Derk is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1967
The most popular boys’ names the year Derk peaked:
Derk among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Derk | 8,548 | 12,764 |
| the Netherlands girls | Derk | — | 12 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Derk 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.