Derrick

Spelling variation of Derek
"the people's ruler"

Derrick Origin and Meaning

The name Derrick is a boy's name of Danish origin meaning "the people's ruler".

Variation of Derek.

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Famous People Named Derrick

  • Derrick Martell Rose
    American basketball player
  • Derrick Watkins
    birth name of Fonzworth Bentley, American musician, author and TV personality
  • Derrick Jones aka D
    Nice, American rapper
  • Derrick Rostagno
    American tennis player
  • Derrick Dewan Brooks
    American NFL football player
  • Derrick May
    American techno musician
  • Derrick Vincent Thomas
    American NFL football player
  • Derrick James Mason
    American NFL football player
  • Derrick "DJ" O’Hara Johnson
    American NFL football player
  • Derrick Ramsey
    American NFL football player
  • Derrick Coleman
    American basketball player
  • Derrick Brew
    American Olympic runner
  • Derrick Bernard Favors
    American basketball player
  • Derrick Barry
    drag queen/female impersonater
  • Derrick Kankakee
    founder of Kankakee Community College.
  • Derrick Derrico
    son of Karen and Deon Derrico, featured on TLC’s ‘Doubling Down with the Derricos’

Derrick in Pop Culture

  • Derrick Adler
    character on TV's "Close to Home"
  • Derrick Harrington
    character in The Clique Series
  • "Derrick
    " German TV series featuring DCI Stephan Derrick
  • Derrick 'Derry' and Derrick 'Roddy' Farrar
    father and son characters in "Vital Signs" by Barbara Wood
  • Introduced into England via the Low Countries (a late 16th
    century London hangman called Derick is the origin of the use of "derrick" for a hoisting apparatus)