Derrill
Derrill was last recorded in 1992, when 6 babies were given it; 787 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derrill by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derrill?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,682, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1950, the peak
Derrill peaked in 1950, when 23 boys were given it, #1,548 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 | #7,682 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,445 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,271 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,238 | 5.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,474 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,805 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,107 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,480 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,695 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,673 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 6 | #5,699 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,290 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,301 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,089 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,747 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,571 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,850 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,886 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,448 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,607 | 6.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,650 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,158 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,290 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,571 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,447 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,298 | 6.3 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,441 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,234 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,693 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,114 | 7.1 |
| 1957 | 21 | #1,764 | 9.7 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,531 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,617 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,059 | 7.4 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,424 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,278 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 15 | #1,996 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 23 | #1,548 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,660 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 15 | #1,962 | 8.5 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,271 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,308 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,456 | 15.6 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,684 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,852 | 11.2 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,547 | 15.2 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,545 | 16.3 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,009 | 11.2 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,739 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,007 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,233 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,211 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 14 | #1,955 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,406 | 10.1 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,936 | 14.4 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,170 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,823 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,653 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,704 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,748 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,814 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,112 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,857 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,658 | 10.0 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,070 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,407 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,280 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,310 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,286 | 12.8 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,302 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,592 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,676 | 10.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derrill a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derrill has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Derrill: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derrill, and how old are they?
An estimated 386 Americans named Derrill and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 53 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 441 people named Derrill (18 women and girls, 423 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 451 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,225 babies since 1880, Derrill is the fourth most given (7.7% 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 Derrill
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 Derrill and names like it
- Compare Derrill and DerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDerrill peaked in 1950.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derrill since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Derrill.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Derrill alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.