girls:
997 births since 1954
#4719 (17th percentile)
boys:
144.7k births since 1917
#233 (95th percentile)
overall:
145.7k births since 1917
#513 (93rd percentile)
The name Derrick is the #513 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 145,740 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 93.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #233 (94.9% percentile) for all time with 144,743 births since 1917. For girls, it ranks #4,719 (17.4% percentile) for all time with 997 births since 1954.
Derrick first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 1954 for girls). Birth data for Derrick is available in 96 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (96 years for boys and 46 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 Derrick has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Derrick reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 89.3% percentile (ranked #74) with 2,229 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 2,229 births per million (ranked 89.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1981, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Derrick ranks #594 for boys (34.8% percentile) with 187 births per million, which is 8.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Derrick reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #709) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 27 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Derrick".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Derrick is pronounced as DEH-rihk, which has 2 syllables.
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