Derek name - Meaning of Derek
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- Gender
- Masculine
- Lucky Number
- 7
- Usage
- English, Germanic
- Pronounced
- DER-ik
- Derek Meaning
- From the older English name Dederick, which was in origin a Low German form of Theodoric. It was imported to England from the Low Countries in the 15th century. Derek is an English name that has Germanic roots. It is derived from the Germanic Diederich, a compound of “thiuda”, which means "people or race", and “reiks”, which means "rich, powerful or ruler".
Derek Related Names
Variants: Dederick, Derick, Derrick, Deryck
Other Languages: Teutorigos (Ancient Celtic), Theoderich, Theodoricus, Theudoricus, þeutrich, þiudreiks (Ancient Germanic), Diederik, Dick, Diede, Diederick, Dirk, Tiede, Ties (Dutch), Thierry (French), Tiede (Frisian), Diederich, Dietrich (German), Theodoric (History), Tielo (Medieval German), Tudor, Tudur (Welsh)
Derek Celebrities
Derek Jeter - baseball player, Derek Abel - golfer, Derek Anderson - football player, Derek Bailey - guitarist, Derek Brown - football player, Derek Cox - football player, Derek Curry - football player,
