girls:
11 births since 1971
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
8.1k births since 1948
#1310 (71st percentile)
overall:
8.1k births since 1948
#3007 (61st percentile)
The name Darrick is the #3,007 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,110 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 61.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,310 (71.4% percentile) for all time with 8,099 births since 1948. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1971.
Darrick first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for boys and 1971 for girls). Birth data for Darrick is available in 75 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023 (75 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Darrick has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Darrick reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 43.9% percentile (ranked #380) with 207 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 216 births per million (ranked 43.7% percentile). Despite a low point around 2014, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Darrick ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 3.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darrick reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #768) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darrick".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Darrick. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.4% confident that Darrick is pronounced as DEH-rihk, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-rihk, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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