Derek
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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" or "lead the people".
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- Instance of
- male given name
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- native label
- Derek
- language of work or name
- Dutch
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- D620
- Cologne phonetics
- 274
- Caverphone
- TRK111
- Commons category
- Derek (given name)
- described by source
- Wiktionary
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