Derral
Derral was last recorded in 1988, when 5 babies were given it; 418 Americans have been recorded with it between 1922 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derral by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derral?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,566, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1940, the peak
Derral peaked in 1940, when 16 boys were given it, #1,750 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #7,566 | 2.6 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,974 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,757 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,157 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,671 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,063 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,039 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,076 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,958 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,528 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 5 | #4,884 | 2.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,081 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,507 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,709 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,715 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,894 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,745 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,450 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,221 | 6.6 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,288 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,077 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,397 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,814 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,342 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,210 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,562 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,431 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,098 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,842 | 4.5 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,009 | 8.2 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,307 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,080 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,683 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,023 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,174 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,380 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,750 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,612 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,694 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,086 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,027 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,298 | 10.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,081 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,906 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,368 | 6.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,345 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,197 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,490 | 6.3 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,371 | 11.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derral a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derral has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Derral: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derral, and how old are they?
An estimated 221 Americans named Derral and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (53% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 56 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 292 people named Derral (10 women and girls, 282 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 261 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 12,721 babies since 1880, Derral is the eighth most given (3.3% of them).
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 Derral
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 Derral and names like it
- Compare Derral and DerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDerral peaked in 1940.
- The top names of 1940The year the most babies were named Derral.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Derral alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.