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Derek
Pronounced /ˈdɛɹɪk/
Rank in 2024
#258
Born in 2024
1,355
Peak year
1989 · #54
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,355 boys were named Derek, about 1 in every 1,266.
- It peaked in 1989 with 8,365 babies, ranked #54.
- It first shows up in the records in 1924.
- 237,860 boys have been named Derek since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Derek per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 2.1Gen X1965–80
- 3.5Millennials1981–96
- 1.4Gen Z1997–12
- 0.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 6 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 409 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 12,807 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Gen X: 57,299 babies, 2.11 per 1,000. Millennials: 106,169 babies, 3.49 per 1,000. Gen Z: 43,841 babies, 1.40 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 17,329 babies, 0.80 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed in the Middle Ages from a Middle Low German variant of Theodoric, and revived in the 19th century.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈdɛɹɪk/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Derek, CC BY-SA 4.0.