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2025 data, released 8 May 2026

Deric

Deric was the 7305th most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 11 babies. Its best year was 1970, when it ranked 763rd; the most babies were born in 1980 (122). Over the last ten years it has moved down 4,371 places. More babies were named Deric in the 1980s than in any other decade.

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Rank in 2025
#7,305 boys, down 1,258 places since 2020
Babies in 2025
11boys
Girls and boys
Almost always a boy’s name2021–2025
Peak year
1980122 babies
Total since 1880
4,744babies recorded

Deric popularity since 1880

050100150200 1900192019401960198020002020
Boys Babies per year, US, from Social Security records. Years with fewer than 5 babies show as zero.
YearRank (boys)Babies (boys)
2025#7,30511
2020#6,04714
2010#2,56248
2000#1,294100
1990#1,029106
1980#792122
1970#763117
1960#1,56027
1950——
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1930——
1920——
1910——
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1890——
1880——

How popular is Deric, counting every spelling?

Deric is the most common spelling of a name family that had 11 boys in 2025 across its spellings. Together these spellings went to 11 boys in 2025.

SpellingBabies 2025Official rankBabies 2021–2025
Deric11#7,30562

Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.

How many kids will share the name Deric?

11 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Deric (0.00 per 1,000 births). For a boy named Deric born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 750 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Deric.

Chance of another Deric in a class of 20under 1 in 50US, born 2025

Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.

How old are people named Deric?

About 4,400 people born in the US named Deric are alive today, with a median age of 38; half are between 27 and 49. That makes Deric mostly worn by adults in their thirties to fifties.

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Estimated people alive in the US with the name, by age, mid-2026. The darker bar holds the median age.

Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.

Names with a similar history

These names rose and fell in step with Deric: their share of US boys followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Deric, they share its era and feel.

Questions about the name Deric

How popular is the name Deric?

Deric was the 7305th most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 11 babies. Its best year was 1970, when it ranked 763rd; the most babies were born in 1980 (122). Over the last ten years it has moved down 4,371 places. More babies were named Deric in the 1980s than in any other decade.

Is Deric a boy or girl name?

In 2021–2025, almost always a boy’s name given the name Deric in the US.