Derrell
Derrell was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,418 among boys’ names; 5,880 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,430 Americans named Derrell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 32 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derrell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derrell?
#8,418 among boys’ names, 2025
Derrell fell from #4,583 in 2015 to #8,418 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 5.3 per million.
136 babies in 1987, the peak
Derrell peaked in 1987, when 136 boys were given it, #794 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,418 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,142 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,623 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,472 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,212 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,512 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,003 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,257 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,634 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,124 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,583 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,813 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,010 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 47 | #2,605 | 24.8 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,321 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,884 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,413 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,118 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,770 | 20.7 |
| 2006 | 41 | #2,795 | 19.9 |
| 2005 | 53 | #2,245 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 44 | #2,497 | 22.2 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,797 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,513 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 43 | #2,313 | 22.1 |
| 2000 | 46 | #2,173 | 23.4 |
| 1999 | 49 | #1,969 | 25.5 |
| 1998 | 63 | #1,645 | 33.0 |
| 1997 | 48 | #1,909 | 25.5 |
| 1996 | 58 | #1,655 | 30.6 |
| 1995 | 56 | #1,624 | 29.4 |
| 1994 | 97 | #1,153 | 50.2 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,204 | 44.4 |
| 1992 | 78 | #1,276 | 39.1 |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,011 | 55.4 |
| 1990 | 131 | #897 | 63.8 |
| 1989 | 128 | #890 | 64.0 |
| 1988 | 133 | #818 | 69.5 |
| 1987 | 136 | #794 | 72.8 |
| 1986 | 113 | #854 | 61.4 |
| 1985 | 107 | #878 | 57.9 |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,013 | 42.7 |
| 1983 | 85 | #958 | 47.4 |
| 1982 | 92 | #935 | 50.7 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,045 | 42.4 |
| 1980 | 70 | #1,082 | 39.2 |
| 1979 | 91 | #920 | 52.9 |
| 1978 | 76 | #991 | 46.3 |
| 1977 | 62 | #1,105 | 37.7 |
| 1976 | 65 | #1,031 | 41.4 |
| 1975 | 65 | #1,022 | 41.6 |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,154 | 32.4 |
| 1973 | 70 | #966 | 44.9 |
| 1972 | 63 | #1,016 | 38.9 |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,027 | 35.6 |
| 1970 | 68 | #983 | 36.6 |
| 1969 | 80 | #857 | 44.7 |
| 1968 | 63 | #913 | 36.2 |
| 1967 | 53 | #997 | 30.4 |
| 1966 | 74 | #845 | 41.5 |
| 1965 | 63 | #931 | 33.9 |
| 1964 | 82 | #842 | 41.2 |
| 1963 | 77 | #857 | 37.9 |
| 1962 | 71 | #902 | 34.3 |
| 1961 | 75 | #884 | 35.3 |
| 1960 | 72 | #892 | 33.8 |
| 1959 | 68 | #929 | 31.9 |
| 1958 | 92 | #779 | 43.3 |
| 1957 | 87 | #807 | 40.3 |
| 1956 | 57 | #990 | 26.9 |
| 1955 | 83 | #802 | 40.3 |
| 1954 | 75 | #834 | 36.8 |
| 1953 | 76 | #825 | 38.5 |
| 1952 | 72 | #827 | 37.0 |
| 1951 | 61 | #903 | 32.4 |
| 1950 | 48 | #1,011 | 26.8 |
| 1949 | 56 | #926 | 31.6 |
| 1948 | 57 | #910 | 32.5 |
| 1947 | 47 | #1,053 | 25.7 |
| 1946 | 49 | #954 | 30.2 |
| 1945 | 43 | #974 | 31.9 |
| 1944 | 50 | #898 | 36.7 |
| 1943 | 51 | #933 | 35.7 |
| 1942 | 47 | #974 | 34.0 |
| 1941 | 46 | #942 | 37.4 |
| 1940 | 50 | #897 | 43.1 |
| 1939 | 51 | #861 | 46.1 |
| 1938 | 52 | #861 | 46.9 |
| 1937 | 42 | #972 | 39.4 |
| 1936 | 41 | #977 | 39.5 |
| 1935 | 47 | #926 | 45.1 |
| 1934 | 42 | #989 | 40.7 |
| 1933 | 46 | #928 | 46.4 |
| 1932 | 43 | #1,009 | 41.2 |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,290 | 27.9 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,573 | 20.0 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,346 | 26.0 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,776 | 17.2 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,657 | 19.5 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,094 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,640 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,686 | 19.4 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,770 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 18 | #1,907 | 16.5 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,844 | 17.3 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,245 | 13.2 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,309 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,285 | 12.8 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,006 | 16.2 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,768 | 10.1 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,675 | 10.6 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,636 | 11.6 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,508 | 30.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derrell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derrell has been given almost only to boys: 16 girls in 113 years of records.
Girls and boys named Derrell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derrell, and how old are they?
4,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 5,880 Americans ever recorded as Derrell. The median Derrell alive today is 43 years old; half are between 32 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 3,556 people named Derrell (73 women and girls, 3,483 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,671 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 162 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 892 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 952 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 703 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 237 |
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 Derrell born?
The states with the most babies named Derrell are Texas, Georgia and California, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 592 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 326 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 292 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 202 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 182 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 129 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 107 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 95 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 83 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 80 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Derrell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Derrell is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 2.0 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 Derrell 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 10,225 babies since 1880, Derrell is the most given (58% 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 Derrell
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 Derrell and names like it
- Compare Derrell and DerrelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDerrell peaked in 1987.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derrell since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Derrell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Derrell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.