Derin
Derin is given to both girls and boys: 10 girls and 17 boys were given it in 2025 (#9,610 among girls’ names and #5,441 among boys’, #8,491 among all names counting both); 1,151 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Derin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Derin mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Derin is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Derin?
#5,441 among boys’ names, 2025
Derin fell from #4,582 in 2015 to #5,441 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 10.0 per million.
50 babies in 2010, the peak
Derin peaked in 2010, when 50 babies were given it (38 boys, #3,031 among boys’ names). The 27 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 54% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,610 | 17 | #5,441 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,225 | 5 | #12,773 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,165 | 10 | #7,854 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,585 | 9 | #8,470 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,922 | 8 | #9,020 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 18 | #5,077 | |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,111 | 14 | #6,166 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,782 | 13 | #6,427 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,927 | 19 | #4,979 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,059 | 21 | #4,656 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,098 | 21 | #4,582 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,123 | 19 | #4,922 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,243 | 22 | #4,355 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,567 | 26 | #3,920 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,723 | 28 | #3,711 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,379 | 38 | #3,031 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,083 | 28 | #3,746 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,913 | 32 | #3,431 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,363 | 23 | #4,267 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,964 | 34 | #3,169 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,126 | 21 | #4,226 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 28 | #3,382 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,346 | 21 | #4,004 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 21 | #3,940 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 19 | #4,161 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 17 | #4,435 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 10 | #6,146 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 19 | #3,731 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 10 | #5,743 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 18 | #3,707 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 13 | #4,581 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,005 | 14 | #4,357 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 10 | #5,442 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 10 | #5,320 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 10 | #5,190 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 13 | #4,224 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 14 | #3,854 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 10 | #4,519 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 20 | #2,652 | |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,933 | 18 | #2,809 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 20 | #2,527 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 10 | #3,993 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,682 | 16 | #2,817 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,452 | 13 | #3,336 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,442 | 13 | #3,261 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,604 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #4,971 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 12 | #3,255 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 9 | #3,918 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 7 | #4,436 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 8 | #3,917 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #4,639 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 7 | #4,080 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 9 | #3,343 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 7 | #3,678 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 15 | #2,050 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 8 | #3,045 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 9 | #2,835 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,708 |
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 Derin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,151 Americans recorded as Derin, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Derin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derin, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,151 Americans ever recorded as Derin. The median Derin alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 955 people named Derin (215 women and girls, 740 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,006 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 99 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 245 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 434 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 334 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,017 babies since 1880, Derin is the sixth most given (7.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 103 babies (26%), the second 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 Derin
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 Derin and names like it
- Compare Derin and DeronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDerin peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derin since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Derin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Derin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Derin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.