Derrick

given name · English · Latin script

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

Derrick 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 English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the Old German personal name Theodoric, via the Low Countries; later influenced the word derrick.

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 Derick in BR Brazil, PH Philippines, IN India and 1 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●

from the Old German personal name Theodoric, via the Low Countries; later influenced the word derrick.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Derrick 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●

  • English1.2M84%
  • Spanish58K4%
  • Swahili32K2%
  • 31K2%
  • French9.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,187,13384%
Spanish58,3334%
Swahili31,9872%
31,2582%
French9,6731%

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◐

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

  • Spanish given name76K records spelled Derrick7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Colombia, Brazil, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Dérrick, Dèrrǐck

  • a separate given name34K records spelled Derrick2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Dérrick

  • French given name12K records spelled Derrick6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Dérrick, Dęrrįčk, Dęrrįçk, Děrrïčk

  • German given name9.0K records spelled Derrick2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

    Also written Dérrîck

  • Hindi given name6.9K records spelled Derrick11 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Derick, ডেরিক, Dèrrîçk, Dérick

58 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●

Derrick is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, a late borrowing from the Low Countries of OG Theodoric; first attested Richard Deryk, Ducheman 1525 SRSx

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • Variant spelling of Derek. This is the usual American spelling of the given name, but in Britain it is more common as a surname than as a given name.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A device that is used for lifting and moving large objects.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A ruler of the people; see Theodoric

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, männl. Vom., Variante von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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●

02K4K6K1920194019601980200020204.1K · 1980

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Derrick in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1917–2025
Yearrecords
19175
19186
19286
19296
19305
19315
19327
19335
19347
19366
19376
193816
19408
194116
194214
194330
194423
194521
194627
194746
194865
194983
1950171
1951218
1952302
1953359
1954507
1955655
1956809
1957945
19581,028
19591,179
19601,180
19611,499
19621,579
19631,948
19642,091
19652,422
19662,438
19672,504
19682,595
19692,936
19703,446
19713,582
19723,088
19733,054
19742,958
19752,815
19762,921
19773,481
19783,786
19793,729
19804,135
19813,850
19823,655
19833,656
19843,661
19853,779
19863,326
19873,534
19883,304
19893,442
19903,363
19913,096
19922,914
19932,704
19942,575
19952,190
19961,995
19971,784
19981,756
19991,614
20001,596
20011,455
20021,437
20031,378
20041,324
20051,372
20061,362
20071,295
20081,197
20091,115
20101,038
20111,098
20121,053
2013981
2014914
2015835
2016748
2017702
2018610
2019580
2020518
2021458
2022370
2023344
2024308
2025288

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 98 years between 1917–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Derrick Henry Lehmer, b. 1905Derrick O'Connor, b. 1941Derrick Coleman, b. 1967Derrick Adkins, b. 1970Derrick Baskin, b. 1975Derrick Rose, b. 1988Derrick Williams, b. 1991Derrick Favors, b. 1991Derrick White, b. 1994Derrick Luckassen, b. 1995

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 81 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Derrick
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020110K#509
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020109.4K#3,779
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020009.2K#3,554
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020208.6K#3,988
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025288—
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025248#354
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020225#509
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—126#7,036
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202295—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—95#42,809
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)202591#172
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—89#2,321

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 454 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Derrick?
We estimate roughly 236 thousand people bear Derrick (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Derrick have the most bearers?
Derrick is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled derek.
How common is Derrick compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Derrick is the 135th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Derrick a male or female name?
Derrick 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 Derrick mean?
Recorded meaning: from the Old German personal name Theodoric, via the Low Countries; later influenced the word derrick.
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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, “Derrick” — the 135th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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