Derick

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Derick is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Uganda it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Derek.

rarermore common
  • UGUganda1 in 330◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 818
  • CACanada1 in 1.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈236K ●

across 10 countries

#776 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
544 ●

3.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.7K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

DerekLatin · English●2M records
דרקHebrew · Hebrew●412 records
ДеррикCyrillic · Russian●34 records
데릭Hangul · Korean●1 records
ԴերեքArmenian · Armenian●0 records
ደረቀEthiopic · Amharic●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Derek in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 13 more and Derrick in KE Kenya, GH Ghana, SG Singapore and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Derek.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Derick is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#135252,842192K rec.—5Derek254
US United States#172201,0132.7M rec.1 in 1.7K201KDerek544
CA Canada#18374,89659K rec.—10Derek243
AU Australia#33356,36552K rec.—39Derek230
BR Brazil—21,855△214 rec.1 in 9.7K22KDerick7
ZA South Africa#10821,21121K rec.——Derek124
PH Philippines—11,3358.9K rec.——Derick86
KE Kenya#3519,5285.4K rec.——Derrick51
EC Ecuador#8468,074△208 rec.1 in 2.1K8.1KDerek29
IT Italy#7267,5488.3K rec.—23Derek73
IE Ireland#1757,2146.7K rec.——Derek148
NZ New Zealand#1414,7334.6K rec.—11Derek115

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese172K43%
  • English166K42%
  • Swahili16K4%
  • Spanish15K4%
  • 7.4K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese171,56543%
English166,02942%
Swahili15,8634%
Spanish14,5824%
7,3862%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Derick is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name189K records spelled Derick6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Ecuador

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Dérick, D-Erick, Dërick, Dèrick

  • Swahili given name19K records spelled Derick4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, South Africa, Philippines

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Dérick

  • a separate given name7.6K records spelled Derick2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, South Africa

    Also written Dérick

  • French given name3.5K records spelled Derick6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, South Africa, Philippines

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Dérick, Dèrick, Dērįčk, Dérîçk

  • Indonesian given name1.2K records spelled Derick3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Dérick

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Derick is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • 1 English: variant of DEREK . 2 Scottish: short form of RODERICK . Top

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02004006001960198020002020571 · 1989

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Derick in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1945–2025
Yearrecords
19457
19475
194811
19496
19507
19519
195216
195319
195418
195533
195644
195766
195877
195980
196089
196199
1962121
1963131
1964150
1965178
1966203
1967225
1968214
1969211
1970281
1971266
1972343
1973292
1974273
1975270
1976317
1977310
1978414
1979490
1980546
1981488
1982489
1983498
1984469
1985449
1986452
1987484
1988511
1989571
1990561
1991420
1992428
1993410
1994407
1995334
1996325
1997332
1998344
1999303
2000309
2001286
2002284
2003271
2004273
2005292
2006290
2007343
2008311
2009263
2010261
2011267
2012227
2013191
2014190
2015189
2016168
2017168
2018161
2019138
2020140
2021112
2022142
2023153
2024126
2025120

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 80 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory, b. 1899Derick Thomson, b. 1921Derick Martini, b. 1972Derick Neikirk, b. 1974Derick Armstrong, b. 1979Derick Hougaard, b. 1983Derick Brassard, b. 1987Derick Ogbu, b. 1990Derick Silva, b. 1998Derick Osei, b. 1998

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 68 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Derick
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202222K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—22K#1,006
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202017K#1,786
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20207.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—5.2K#3,279
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241.7K#530
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010416#50,275
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000405#48,877
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020327#65,511
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025258#345
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—210#1,006
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—164#1,608

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 398 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Derick?
We estimate roughly 236 thousand people bear Derick (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Derick have the most bearers?
Derick is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled derek.
How common is Derick compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Derick is the 135th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Derick a male or female name?
Derick is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Derick mean?
Recorded meaning: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Derek.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Derick” — the 135th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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