Derell
Derell was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 731 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,770, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1986, the peak
Derell peaked in 1986, when 34 boys were given it, #1,800 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #12,770 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,103 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,747 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,044 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,005 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,682 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,273 | 4.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,113 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,803 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,616 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 14 | #6,146 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,728 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,162 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,789 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,886 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,889 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,097 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,567 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,003 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,100 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,705 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,363 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,864 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,329 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,593 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,272 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,641 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,414 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 26 | #2,563 | 12.7 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,489 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 29 | #2,152 | 15.1 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,066 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 34 | #1,800 | 18.5 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,029 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,459 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,460 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,735 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,805 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,137 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,628 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,452 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,438 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,790 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,956 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,578 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,784 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,155 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,428 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,939 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,059 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,795 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,103 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,044 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,035 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,193 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,395 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,384 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,167 | 2.3 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,430 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Derell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derell, and how old are they?
An estimated 687 Americans named Derell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 26 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 567 people named Derell (20 women and girls, 547 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 694 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Derell?
Derell is a less common spelling of Derrell: SSA has recorded 731 Derell and 5,880 Derrell since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,235 babies since 1880, Derell is the sixth most given (6.0% 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 Derell
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 Derell and names like it
- Compare Derell and DerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDerell peaked in 1986.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derell since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Derell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Derell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.