Dereon
Dereon was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 1,571 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,550 Americans named Dereon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 16 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dereon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dereon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,895, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
316 babies in 2008, the peak
Dereon peaked in 2008, when 316 babies were given it (238 boys, #883 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | under 5 | 10 | #7,895 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 6 | #11,159 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 6 | #11,099 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 8 | #8,929 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 7 | #9,989 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 9 | #8,317 | |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,063 | 12 | #6,785 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,280 | 15 | #5,850 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,140 | 21 | #4,581 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,437 | 20 | #4,739 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 23 | #5,695 | 38 | #2,965 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,760 | 43 | #2,782 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,419 | 73 | #1,908 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,266 | 137 | #1,269 |
| 2009 | 91 | #2,185 | 211 | #953 |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,447 | 238 | #883 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,987 | 214 | #926 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,963 | 80 | #1,741 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #10,420 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 7 | #8,071 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #8,748 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #7,477 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 12 | #4,953 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,160 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #6,997 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,397 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dereon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,571 Americans recorded as Dereon, 23% are girls and 77% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dereon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dereon, and how old are they?
1,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,571 Americans ever recorded as Dereon. The median Dereon alive today is 17 years old; half are between 16 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,138 people named Dereon (260 women and girls, 878 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,529 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 29 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 202 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Dereon born?
The states with the most babies named Dereon are Texas, Florida and Illinois, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 105 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 97 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 93 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 83 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 79 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 56 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 53 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 46 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| South Carolina | 46 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Louisiana | 39 | not ranked | 1.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dereon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,931 babies since 1880, Dereon is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 none of their 103 babies recorded by SSA was a Dereon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Dereon
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 Dereon and names like it
- Compare Dereon and DeronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDereon peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dereon since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Dereon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dereon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.