boys:
5.4k births since 1952
#1618 (65th percentile)
overall:
5.4k births since 1952
#3698 (52nd percentile)
The name Derik is the #3,698 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,446 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 52.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,618 (64.7% percentile) for all time with 5,446 births since 1952.
Derik first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (first recorded for boys in 1952). Birth data for Derik is available in 70 out of the 72 years between 1952 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Derik reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 26.0% percentile (ranked #504) with 100 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 102 births per million (ranked 25.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Derik ranks #881 for boys (3.3% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 18.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Derik".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Derik is pronounced as DEH-rihk, which has 2 syllables.
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