Dereka
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Dereka by the numbers
Dereka was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 22 babies in 1997, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Dereka
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dereka. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Deenavalley; a form of Dinah11 in England and Wales (2025)
- Devikalittle goddess3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Deevagoddess or divine female; a form of Deva8 in the US (2017)
- Deeyalamp; light; a form of Diya7 in the US (2017)
- Derickaruler of the people; a form of Derrick6 in the US (2017)
- Dreya38 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Dereka
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