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Derek

Derek

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Derek is a male 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. Dutch language short forms of Diederik are Dik, Dirck, and Dirk.

History

The English form of the name arises in the 15th century, via import from the Low Countries. The native English (Anglo-Saxon) form of the name was Deoric or Deodric, from Old English Þēodrīc, but this name had fallen out of use in the medieval period. During the Late Middle Ages, there was intense contact between the territories adjacent to the North Sea, in particular due to the activities of the Hanseatic League. As a result, there was a lot of cross-pollination between Low German, Dutch, English, Danish and Norwegian. The given name Derk is found in records of the Low Countries from the early 14th century, and in the spelling Derck becomes rather common in name lists compiled in the Habsburg Netherlands during the early 16th century. An early bearer of the name Derek waslord of Keppel, Gelderland, in the early 14th century. A Derek van Keppel, lord of Verwoelde, died in 1495 and was succeeded by his eldest son, also called Derek van Keppel. A later Derek van Keppel died in 1646, succeeded by Asewolt van Keppel, the father of Arnold van Keppel, who in 1688 was created Earl of Albemarle in the Peerage of England.

Given name

Arts and entertainment

Sports

Business

Politics

  • Derek Barber a.k.a. Baron Barber of Tewkesbury (born 1918), British civil servant, agricultural expert and politician
  • Derek Beackon, English lorry driver and politician
  • Derek Bedson (1920–1989), Canadian civil servant
  • Derek Blackburn (born 1934), Canadian politician
  • Derek Brownlee (born 1974), Scottish politician
  • Derek Bryan (1910–2003), British diplomat
  • Derek Burney (born 1939), Canadian businessman, diplomat and political strategist
  • Derek Clark (born 1933), British politician and science teacher
  • Derek Conway (born 1953), British politician
  • Derek Coombs (born 1931), British politician and corporate executive
  • Derek Corrigan, Canadian politician
  • Derek Croxton American history researcher and writer
  • Derek Denton (born 1924), Australian scientist
  • Derek Draper (born 1967), English former lobbyist involved in Cash for Access scandal in 1999, subsequently a psychotherapist
  • Derek Enright (1935–1995), British politician
  • Derek Ezra a.k.a. Baron Ezra (born 1919) British politician and corporate executive
  • Derek Fatchett (1945–1999), British politician
  • Derek Fletcher (born 1951), Canadian politician born in England
  • Derek Foster (born 1937), British politician
  • Derek Freeman (1916–2001), New Zealand anthropologist
  • Derek Gregory (born 1951), British geographer
  • Derek Hatton (born 1948), English politician, businessman and after-dinner speaker
  • Derek Holland (activist), British politician and writer who uses several pen-names: Harry Worthington, Rory O'Connor, D. Liam O'Huallachain, Derek O'Huallachain, and Deric O'Huallachain
  • Derek Humphry (born 1930), writer of the suicide handbook Final Exit and president of the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization
  • Derek Hussey (born 1948), Northern Irish politician
  • Derek Insley, Canadian politician
  • Derek Keppel (1863–1944), British nobleman, soldier and member of the royal household
  • Derek Laud (born 1964), English political lobbyist
  • Derek Lee (born 1948), Canadian lawyer and politician
  • Derek Lodge (1929–1996), English civil servant and statistician
  • Derek McDowell (born 1958), Irish politician
  • Derek Mooney (born 1962), Irish ministerial adviser and [(Fianna Fáil)] campaign manager
  • Derek Moore-Brabazon (1910–1974), a UK baron - 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara
  • Derek Morris, British academic formerly chairperson of the Competition Commission
  • Derek Nally(born 1936), policeman, campaigner and politician
  • Derek Oulton (born 1927), lawyer and civil servant
  • Derek Page (1927–2005) a.k.a. Baron Whaddon, British politician
  • Derek Prag, British politician
  • Derek Quigley (born 1932), New Zealand politician
  • Derek Robinson a.k.a. Red Tobbo, British motor industry shop steward
  • Derek Schofield, Chief Justice of Gibraltar
  • Derek Simpson (born 1944), British trade unionist
  • Derek Spencer (born 1936), British politician
  • Derek Taylor (born 1951), Caribbean politician
  • Derek Twigg (born 1959) English politician
  • Derek James Walding (born 1937), Canadian politician, born in England
  • Derek Walker-Smith a.k.a. Baron Broxbourne (1910–1992), British politician
  • Derek Wall, British politician
  • Derek Watkins British docker shop steward member of the "Pentonville Five"
  • Derek Watson (retired 2002), British churchman
  • "Derek Wee", name used in a controversial blog by Wee Siew Kim (born 1960), Singaporean politician
  • Derek Wells (born 1946), Canadian politician and lawyer
  • Derek Worlock (1920–1996), British Roman Catholic bishop
  • Derek Wyatt (born 1949), British politician

Science, education and academics

  • Derek Abbott (born 1960), physicist and electronic engineer
  • Derek Barton (1918–1998), British physical chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate
  • Derek Bickerton (born 1926), linguist and academic
  • Derek Birley (1926–2002), academic and educator
  • Derek Blake, academic and research scientist
  • Derek Bok (born 1930), American lawyer and educator
  • Derek Briggs (born c. 1945), Irish paleontologist
  • Derek Denny-Brown (1901–1981), British neurologist
  • Derek Hirst (born 1948), English historian of early-modern Britain
  • Derek Hockridge, British translator, lecturer and expert in French society and culture
  • Derek Hopwood, British academic and author
  • Derek Long (born 1925), former professor of structural chemistry at the University of Bradford, working in the field of Raman spectroscopy
  • Derek McCormack, New Zealand biochemist and academic
  • Derek Morley (1920–1969) independent science consultant and journalist noted for study of ants
  • Derek Parfit (born 1942), British philosopher and academic
  • Derek Price (1922–1983), information scientist and science historian
  • Derek Ratcliffe (1929–2005), British nature conservationist
  • Derek Roe, British paleolithic archeologist and academic
  • Derek Summerfield controversial psychiatrist and writer
  • Derek Taunt (1917–2004), British mathematician and codebreaker
  • Derek van der Kooy (born c. 1955), scientist and academic working in stem cell research

Writing

Miscellaneous

  • Derek Bentley (1933–1953), Englishman hanged for murder and subsequently pardoned
  • Derek Anthony Seagrim (1903–1943), English soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Derek Wood (c. 1964–1988), one of two British soldiers killed in the 1988 Corporals killings incident

Spelling variants

Derrek

Derrick
  • see Derrick (name)

Derick

see also Special:Prefixindex/Derick

Deryck
Dereck
Derik

Use as a surname

Unlike the forms Dietrich and Dieter, Derek has not traditionally been used as a surname. It was however, used as a pseudonym (and adopted as legal surname in 1947) by American actor John Derek (1926–1998), who was born Derek Delevan Harris, and was borne by his fourth wife Bo Derek.

Fictional characters

  • Derek and Clive, controversial cult characters portrayed by Dudley Moore and Peter Cook
  • Derek the dark green diesel, character from Thomas the Tank Engine
  • Derek the Sheep, eponymous character in a comic strip in the Beano
  • Derek Almond, character in the graphic novel V for Vendetta
  • Derek Blunt, anthropomorphic hawk in Darkwing Duck
  • Derek Branning, character in the BBC soap EastEnders
  • Derek Conway, character in British TV series The Bill
  • Derek Flint, eponymous character in Our Man Flint
  • Derek Frye, character in the ABC soap opera All My Children
  • Derek Generic, character from the animated series Bobby's World.
  • Derek Harkinson, character in the BBC soap EastEnders
  • Derek Hale, character in MTV's Teen Wolf played by Tyler Hoechlin
  • Derek Klivian, pilot in the Rogue Squadron from Star Wars
  • Derek Morgan,character in the criminal drama series Criminal Minds played by Shemar Moore
  • Derek Noakes, eponymous character in the comedy-drama pilot Derek
  • Derek O'Farrell, character in the British soap Brookside
  • Derek Powers a.k.a. Blight, supervillain in the animated series Batman Beyond
  • Derek Shepherd former Head of Neurosurgery at Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital, in the American medical series Grey's Anatomy
  • Derek Smalls, character in the spoof rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap
  • Derek Stiles, character in the Trauma Center series of video games
  • Derek Trotter, character in the TV comedy series Only Fools and Horses
  • Derek Venturi, title character in the Canadian TV show Life with Derek
  • Derek Wheeler a.k.a. "Wheels", character in the Degrassi series
  • Derek Wilton, character in the TV soap Coronation Street
  • Derek Zoolander, eponymous character in the film Zoolander
  • Prince Derek, one of the main characters in the animated film The Swan Princess

Popularity

Since 1940, the name Derek was most popular in the 1980s in the United States.

Popularity of Derek" since 1940
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2010s170181182
2000s121132139149156172159142159168
1990s545962677783101106110114
1980s50535051525657545354
1970s77636769748384827572
1960s247205187177172166141123122109
1950s470407363378362331300283256254
1940s714953^956891862641

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