Derion
Derion was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 1,076 Americans have been recorded with it between 1985 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Derion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 15 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derion?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,897, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
115 babies in 2008, the peak
Derion peaked in 2008, when 115 babies were given it (103 boys, #1,556 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #7,897 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,988 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,471 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,167 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,725 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,883 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,146 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,133 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,367 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,565 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 26 | #3,926 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,681 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 49 | #2,526 | 25.8 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,011 | 20.0 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,016 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 93 | #1,690 | 46.9 |
| 2008 | 103 | #1,556 | 50.5 |
| 2007 | 72 | #1,959 | 34.7 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,170 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,642 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,893 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,647 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,812 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,430 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,624 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,305 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,516 | 11.0 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,555 | 16.4 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,691 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,697 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,042 | 11.9 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,532 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,960 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,507 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,971 | 3.9 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,880 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,378 | 7.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,972 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,076 Americans recorded as Derion, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Derion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derion, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,076 Americans ever recorded as Derion. The median Derion alive today is 18 years old; half are between 15 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 871 people named Derion (85 women and girls, 786 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,011 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 148 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 706 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 204 |
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, Derion is the seventh most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 103 babies recorded by SSA was a Derion (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 Derion
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 Derion and names like it
- Compare Derion and DeronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDerion peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derion since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Derion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Derion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.