Derryl
Derryl was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 916 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derryl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derryl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,407, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1962, the peak
Derryl peaked in 1962, when 44 boys were given it, #1,175 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #11,407 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,274 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,495 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,886 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,293 | 3.0 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,986 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,746 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,351 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,868 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,009 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 10 | #5,323 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,508 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,476 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,385 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,099 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,637 | 3.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,285 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,609 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,006 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,674 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,226 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,511 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,660 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,718 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,098 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,287 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,785 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,711 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,010 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,421 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,449 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,132 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 24 | #1,580 | 13.8 |
| 1966 | 22 | #1,663 | 12.3 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,281 | 19.4 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,291 | 18.6 |
| 1963 | 33 | #1,359 | 16.2 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,175 | 21.3 |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,253 | 18.8 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,594 | 12.2 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,816 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 28 | #1,489 | 13.2 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,591 | 11.6 |
| 1956 | 23 | #1,652 | 10.9 |
| 1955 | 23 | #1,623 | 11.2 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,387 | 14.7 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,915 | 8.6 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,876 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,433 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,896 | 8.9 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,882 | 9.0 |
| 1948 | 19 | #1,724 | 10.8 |
| 1947 | 20 | #1,706 | 10.9 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,708 | 11.1 |
| 1945 | 16 | #1,712 | 11.9 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,345 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,311 | 7.7 |
| 1942 | 7 | #2,999 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,017 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,576 | 4.3 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,647 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,945 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,787 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,048 | 6.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derryl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 916 Americans recorded as Derryl, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Derryl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derryl, and how old are they?
An estimated 675 Americans named Derryl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 48 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 694 people named Derryl (52 women and girls, 642 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 739 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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 12,721 babies since 1880, Derryl is the fourth most given (7.2% 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 Derryl
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 Derryl and names like it
- Compare Derryl and DerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDerryl peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derryl since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Derryl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Derryl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.