Deron
Deron was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,113 among boys’ names; 5,744 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,280 Americans named Deron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 27 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deron?
#9,113 among boys’ names, 2025
Deron fell from #3,713 in 2015 to #9,113 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 4.7 per million.
270 babies in 1966, the peak
Deron peaked in 1966, when 270 boys were given it, #465 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,113 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,738 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,627 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,332 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,168 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,507 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,030 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,619 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,137 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,458 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,713 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,764 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,026 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 74 | #1,924 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 72 | #1,933 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,017 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 96 | #1,643 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 104 | #1,546 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 72 | #1,960 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 76 | #1,810 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 77 | #1,724 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 49 | #2,317 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 50 | #2,181 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 60 | #1,870 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 67 | #1,713 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 67 | #1,698 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 54 | #1,828 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 64 | #1,623 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,439 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,321 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 77 | #1,336 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 83 | #1,278 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 116 | #1,020 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 124 | #966 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 121 | #963 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 140 | #860 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 131 | #877 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 127 | #843 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 137 | #788 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 106 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 95 | #934 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 85 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 75 | #1,024 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,234 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 69 | #1,097 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 66 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,035 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 72 | #1,029 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 77 | #976 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 89 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 121 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 137 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 164 | #616 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 113 | #747 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 143 | #692 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 146 | #685 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 157 | #631 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 185 | #556 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 212 | #516 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 270 | #465 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 263 | #479 | 0.14 |
| 1964 | 127 | #684 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 26 | #1,549 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 26 | #1,551 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 48 | #1,139 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 20 | #1,825 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 17 | #1,992 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,083 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deron has been given almost only to boys: 35 girls in 69 years of records.
Girls and boys named Deron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deron, and how old are they?
5,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 5,744 Americans ever recorded as Deron. The median Deron alive today is 40 years old; half are between 27 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 4,493 people named Deron (40 women and girls, 4,453 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,291 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 220 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,560 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 385 |
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 Deron born?
The states with the most babies named Deron are California, Ohio and New York, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 475 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 402 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 282 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 249 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 242 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 230 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 222 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Florida | 124 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 124 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Kentucky | 123 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Deron is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deron is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1956 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 Deron 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, Deron is the most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 103 babies (7.8%), the fourth 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 Deron
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 Deron and names like it
- Compare Deron and DerianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDeron peaked in 1966.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deron since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Deron.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Deron alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.