girls:
39 births since 1974
#5677 (1st percentile)
boys:
19.5k births since 1945
#827 (82nd percentile)
overall:
19.6k births since 1945
#1835 (76th percentile)
The name Derick is the #1,835 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,564 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 76.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #827 (82.0% percentile) for all time with 19,525 births since 1945. For girls, it ranks #5,677 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 39 births since 1974.
Derick first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for boys and 1974 for girls). Birth data for Derick is available in 78 out of the 79 years between 1945 and 2023 (78 years for boys and 7 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 Derick has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Derick reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 53.5% percentile (ranked #317) with 294 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 294 births per million (ranked 53.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Derick ranks #763 for boys (16.3% percentile) with 84 births per million, which is 28.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Derick reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #745) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Derick".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Derick is pronounced as DEH-rihk, which has 2 syllables.
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