Deral
Deral was last recorded in 1981, when 6 babies were given it; 203 Americans have been recorded with it between 1926 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deral by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deral?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,667, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1942, the peak
Deral peaked in 1942, when 12 boys were given it, #2,173 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | #5,667 | 3.3 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,036 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,172 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,102 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,623 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,104 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,196 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,756 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,876 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,093 | 2.4 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 7 | #3,318 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,021 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,590 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,955 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,514 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,859 | 2.6 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,082 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,068 | 4.0 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,600 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,173 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,610 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,220 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,251 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,346 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,434 | 9.7 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,150 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,481 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,366 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,100 | 4.6 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,358 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deral a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deral has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deral: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deral, and how old are they?
An estimated 99 Americans named Deral and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 228 people named Deral (10 women and girls, 218 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 120 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Deral rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,563 babies since 1880, Deral is the eighth most given (3.1% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Deral and names like it
- Compare Deral and DerylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDeral peaked in 1942.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Deral.
- Names starting with DMost given first.