Derry — boys' name

What the Data Says About Derry

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,541 babies named Derry between 1914 and 2016, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Derry currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 50 babies received it in a single year. Derry is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 137 additional births since 1932.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Derry performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 335 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Derry shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 25 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Derry in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Derry in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,541 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.