Definitions for DEREK
derek

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1. Dereknoun

   A male given name from the Germanic languages.

   "Do you think so? Her husband has an odd name - Derek Keppel. He is a musician - a violinist."

2. Etymology: Borrowed in the Middle Ages from a Middle Low German variant of Theodoric, and revived in the nineteenth century.[1]

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1. Derek

   Derek is a masculine given name. It is the English language short form of Diederik, the Low Franconian form of the name Theodoric. Theodoric is an old Germanic name with an original meaning of "people-ruler". Common variants of the name are Derrek, Derick, Dereck, Derrick, and Deric. Low German and Dutch short forms of Diederik are Dik, Dirck, and Dirk.

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1. derek

   Song lyrics by derek -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by derek on the Lyrics.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DEREK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Derek is ranked #85659 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Derek surname appeared 218 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Derek.
   
   81.6% or 178 total occurrences were White.
   6.8% or 15 total occurrences were Black.
   5% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   3.2% or 7 total occurrences were of two or more races.

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DEREK' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2364

How to pronounce DEREK?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say DEREK in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of DEREK in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of DEREK in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of DEREK in a Sentence

1. Benjamin Thomas:

   If anything, Aaron was managing Derek in this enterprise, derek was managing nobody.

2. Sherri Schwanz:

   Governor Laura Kelly is the education governor, for her opponent to attempt to lay claim to that title is laughable. A more accurate title for Derek Schmidt to claim would be Brownback’s defender in chief.

3. Steve Irwin:

   Sometimes during rehearsals it feels like there are three people in the room, derek put that in this freestyle, and I feel that Dad is with me every day.

4. Tim Walz:

   Taking that video, I think many folks know, is maybe the only reason that Derek Chauvin will go to prison.

5. Damon Hewitt:

   The core of the problem is that it is not just police departments as a whole -- it is officers who are allowed to act with impunity, is there anything that is a counterbalance to stop them doing the kind of things that Officer Derek Chauvin did ? Liability to the police department would, in my view, be insufficient to do that.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Derek
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek
3. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html