Derrek
Derrek is a boy's name that peaked in 1989, when it was the 891st most popular in the United States. Its origin is given as Germanic languages. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 2,900 Derreks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Derrek
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,047
- Estimated living today
- 2,900
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 891st
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1950
How old the living Derreks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,047 babies given the name since 1950, about 2,900 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 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.
Where Derrek is most common
Across the country Derrek is recorded 0.22 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Derreks are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular boys’ names the year Derrek peaked:
Related names
Derrek 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.