Derian
Derian was given to 51 boys in 2025, #2,577 among boys’ names; 1,659 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,630 Americans named Derian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 11 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derian?
#2,577 among boys’ names, 2025
Derian rose from #4,754 in 2015 to #2,577 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 29.9 per million.
101 babies in 1996, the peak
Derian peaked in 1996, when 101 babies were given it (85 boys, #1,292 among boys’ names). The 51 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #2,577 | 29.9 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,380 | 34.2 |
| 2023 | 36 | #3,308 | 21.0 |
| 2022 | 49 | #2,682 | 28.1 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,273 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,842 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,003 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 40 | #2,959 | 22.0 |
| 2017 | 32 | #3,458 | 17.3 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,906 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,754 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 34 | #3,248 | 17.7 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,088 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,038 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 46 | #2,640 | 24.2 |
| 2010 | 27 | #3,834 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,490 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,724 | 22.1 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,828 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 42 | #2,752 | 20.4 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,465 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 52 | #2,211 | 26.2 |
| 2003 | 40 | #2,551 | 20.2 |
| 2002 | 48 | #2,199 | 24.7 |
| 2001 | 45 | #2,251 | 23.2 |
| 2000 | 77 | #1,551 | 39.2 |
| 1999 | 63 | #1,671 | 32.8 |
| 1998 | 62 | #1,669 | 32.4 |
| 1997 | 51 | #1,836 | 27.1 |
| 1996 | 85 | #1,292 | 44.9 |
| 1995 | 72 | #1,389 | 37.8 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,784 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,068 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,751 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,612 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,081 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,583 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,609 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,635 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,969 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,792 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,754 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,677 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,155 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,668 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,602 | 4.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,226 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,075 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,104 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,659 Americans recorded as Derian, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 51 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Derian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derian, and how old are they?
1,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,659 Americans ever recorded as Derian. The median Derian alive today is 22 years old; half are between 11 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,339 people named Derian (164 women and girls, 1,175 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,398 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 22 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 361 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 779 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 465 |
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 Derian born?
The states with the most babies named Derian are Texas, California and New York, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,425 | 1.7× |
| California | 10 | #1,617 | 0.8× |
| New York | 5 | #1,825 | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,900 | 0.2× |
Where Derian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Derian is most over-represented in Texas: since 1967 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Derian 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 15,017 babies since 1880, Derian is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 103 babies (50%), the most given that year.
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 Derian
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 Derian and names like it
- Compare Derian and DeronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDerian peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derian since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Derian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Derian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.