Gender: M
Origin: German
Meaning: "the people's ruler"
Popularity in 2008: #159
Derek started out as a sophisticated Brit, but the name became so common over the last decades of the twentieth century that it lost much of its English accent, along with its stylish edge.
International Variations:
Derick,
Derrick,
Diederik,
Derk,
Derrek
(Danish)
Dirk
(Dutch)
Dedrick,
Diederick,
Dietrich,
Darrick,
Dedric
(German)
Derrig,
Derrik
(Irish)
Daric
(Persian)
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