Derron
Derron was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,496 among boys’ names; 1,536 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Derron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 22 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derron?
#12,496 among boys’ names, 2025
Derron fell from #6,066 in 2015 to #12,496 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 2.9 per million.
59 babies in 1990, the peak
Derron peaked in 1990, when 59 boys were given it, #1,464 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,496 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,201 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,118 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,932 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,592 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,817 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,107 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,428 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,216 | 5.9 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,066 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #7,170 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,445 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,314 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,011 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,555 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,352 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,301 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,529 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,921 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 23 | #3,961 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,454 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,005 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,546 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,445 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,328 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,399 | 12.0 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,462 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,770 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,763 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,407 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,516 | 15.5 |
| 1993 | 32 | #2,358 | 16.3 |
| 1992 | 42 | #1,923 | 21.0 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,149 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 59 | #1,464 | 28.7 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,304 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 49 | #1,511 | 25.6 |
| 1987 | 45 | #1,569 | 24.1 |
| 1986 | 35 | #1,764 | 19.0 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,183 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,896 | 16.1 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,292 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 22 | #2,286 | 12.1 |
| 1981 | 29 | #1,907 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,461 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,406 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,027 | 14.6 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,141 | 13.4 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,353 | 12.1 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,717 | 18.6 |
| 1974 | 36 | #1,445 | 22.9 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,555 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 24 | #1,832 | 14.8 |
| 1971 | 28 | #1,679 | 15.8 |
| 1970 | 26 | #1,713 | 14.0 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,821 | 11.7 |
| 1968 | 36 | #1,259 | 20.7 |
| 1967 | 30 | #1,389 | 17.2 |
| 1966 | 24 | #1,589 | 13.5 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,299 | 18.8 |
| 1964 | 22 | #1,706 | 11.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,398 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,895 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,347 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,423 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,356 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derron has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Derron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derron, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,536 Americans ever recorded as Derron. The median Derron alive today is 36 years old; half are between 22 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,242 people named Derron (14 women and girls, 1,228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,418 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 51 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 366 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 514 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 388 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 118 |
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, Derron is the fourth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 103 babies (4.9%), the fifth 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 Derron
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 Derron and names like it
- Compare Derron and DeronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDerron peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derron since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Derron.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Derron alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.