Derrion
Derrion was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,900 among boys’ names; 1,516 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Derrion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derrion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derrion?
#6,900 among boys’ names, 2025
Derrion fell from #3,245 in 2015 to #6,900 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.3 to 7.0 per million.
95 babies in 2008, the peak
Derrion peaked in 2008, when 95 babies were given it (89 boys, #1,714 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,900 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,924 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,386 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,219 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,812 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,738 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,367 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,392 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,902 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,358 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #3,245 | 18.3 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,710 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,430 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,726 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,552 | 25.3 |
| 2010 | 69 | #1,986 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 79 | #1,853 | 39.8 |
| 2008 | 89 | #1,714 | 43.6 |
| 2007 | 89 | #1,702 | 42.9 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,018 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 47 | #2,437 | 23.5 |
| 2004 | 49 | #2,318 | 24.7 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,104 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,647 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 70 | #1,658 | 36.0 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,019 | 25.5 |
| 1999 | 55 | #1,802 | 28.6 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,567 | 17.3 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,628 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 34 | #2,339 | 17.9 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,406 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,127 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 32 | #2,357 | 16.3 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,243 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,845 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,632 | 12.2 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,659 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,239 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,075 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,120 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,284 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,283 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,221 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,936 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,717 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derrion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,516 Americans recorded as Derrion, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Derrion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derrion, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,516 Americans ever recorded as Derrion. The median Derrion alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,111 people named Derrion (71 women and girls, 1,040 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,412 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 258 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 931 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 283 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,017 babies since 1880, Derrion is the fifth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 103 babies (12%), the third 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 Derrion
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 Derrion and names like it
- Compare Derrion and DeronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDerrion peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derrion since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Derrion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Derrion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.