Derald
Derald was last recorded in 2000, when 6 babies were given it; 2,190 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derald by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derald?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,387, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
75 babies in 1929, the peak
Derald peaked in 1929, when 75 boys were given it, #723 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6 | #9,387 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,195 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,005 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,085 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,081 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,080 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,195 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,918 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,303 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,473 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 9 | #4,408 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,280 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,282 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,155 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,660 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 15 | #2,992 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,627 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,247 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,715 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,086 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,112 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,700 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,144 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,456 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,848 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,318 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 27 | #1,574 | 15.1 |
| 1968 | 23 | #1,655 | 13.2 |
| 1967 | 19 | #1,823 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 24 | #1,588 | 13.5 |
| 1965 | 29 | #1,436 | 15.6 |
| 1964 | 29 | #1,466 | 14.6 |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,200 | 20.7 |
| 1962 | 30 | #1,430 | 14.5 |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,238 | 19.3 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,593 | 12.2 |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,249 | 18.3 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,350 | 15.5 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,135 | 21.3 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,393 | 14.7 |
| 1955 | 26 | #1,512 | 12.6 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,336 | 15.7 |
| 1953 | 44 | #1,108 | 22.3 |
| 1952 | 21 | #1,675 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,384 | 15.4 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,321 | 16.8 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,353 | 16.3 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,261 | 18.8 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,121 | 23.0 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,240 | 19.7 |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,128 | 25.3 |
| 1944 | 40 | #1,041 | 29.3 |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,110 | 26.6 |
| 1942 | 45 | #994 | 32.6 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,114 | 28.5 |
| 1940 | 49 | #910 | 42.3 |
| 1939 | 38 | #1,037 | 34.3 |
| 1938 | 55 | #838 | 49.6 |
| 1937 | 57 | #813 | 53.4 |
| 1936 | 60 | #790 | 57.8 |
| 1935 | 55 | #845 | 52.8 |
| 1934 | 53 | #865 | 51.3 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,019 | 40.3 |
| 1932 | 55 | #862 | 52.7 |
| 1931 | 57 | #832 | 54.8 |
| 1930 | 58 | #867 | 52.9 |
| 1929 | 75 | #723 | 69.7 |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,099 | 37.0 |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,209 | 31.9 |
| 1926 | 47 | #1,012 | 42.3 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,258 | 29.6 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,588 | 21.2 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,391 | 25.5 |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,345 | 27.6 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,556 | 21.8 |
| 1920 | 17 | #1,977 | 16.0 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,825 | 18.4 |
| 1918 | 10 | #2,733 | 9.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,125 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 8 | #2,978 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,963 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,367 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derald a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derald has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Derald: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derald, and how old are they?
An estimated 916 Americans named Derald and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (42% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 56 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,163 people named Derald (2 women and girls, 1,161 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,253 babies since 1880, Derald is the most given (97% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Derald
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Derald and names like it
- Compare Derald and DeroldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDerald peaked in 1929.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derald since 1910.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Derald.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Derald alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.