Derrel
Derrel was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 1,181 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derrel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derrel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,748, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1988, the peak
Derrel peaked in 1988, when 25 boys were given it, #2,381 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #12,748 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,127 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,273 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,361 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,883 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,525 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,425 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,303 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,399 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,633 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 14 | #4,330 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,505 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,509 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,321 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,084 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,639 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,198 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,381 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,096 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,030 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,106 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,762 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,283 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,694 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,069 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,677 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,926 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,248 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,441 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,547 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,290 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,298 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,892 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,264 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,739 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,935 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,156 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,352 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,641 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,911 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,108 | 8.1 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,340 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,063 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 20 | #1,817 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,895 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,923 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,926 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,603 | 11.3 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,294 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 21 | #1,732 | 9.9 |
| 1955 | 21 | #1,693 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,843 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 20 | #1,724 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 24 | #1,556 | 12.3 |
| 1951 | 22 | #1,609 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,350 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,048 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 15 | #1,961 | 8.5 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,868 | 9.3 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,482 | 14.2 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,033 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,831 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,435 | 16.8 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,175 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,544 | 16.3 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,410 | 19.8 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,587 | 16.3 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,845 | 13.5 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,544 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,602 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,059 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,607 | 8.7 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,848 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,220 | 11.5 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,714 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 15 | #1,989 | 13.7 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,294 | 11.7 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,434 | 10.6 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,219 | 12.6 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,467 | 10.8 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,691 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,000 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 6 | #3,957 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,669 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,279 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,720 | 10.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,929 | 8.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,063 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derrel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derrel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Derrel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derrel, and how old are they?
An estimated 707 Americans named Derrel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (60% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 39 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 754 people named Derrel (14 women and girls, 740 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 794 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Derrel?
Derrel is a less common spelling of Derrell: SSA has recorded 1,181 Derrel and 5,880 Derrell since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,721 babies since 1880, Derrel is the third most given (9.3% 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 Derrel
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 Derrel and names like it
- Compare Derrel and DerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDerrel peaked in 1988.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derrel since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Derrel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Derrel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.