Boys' name · since 1953
Dervin
Dervin has 186 recorded births since 1953 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2014 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 186
- total births
- 1953–2025
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 22%
- born in that decade
Dervin is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 186 have been recorded since 1953.
Dervin has 186 recorded births among boys since 1953, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1953 to 2025.
- 186 total births
- 1953–2025 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 22% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Dervin's 186 recorded births place it above 70% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Dervin's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Dervin's full recorded timeline at 1999, 54% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 46% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1953, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2014 peak of 11 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Dervin popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1953–2025
- Peak year (2014)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 73 years of records
Dervin by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Dervin's strongest decade.
40 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 22% of all-time use.
Dervin births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 5
1950s
5 births
- 1960s
1960s
24 births
- 1970s
1970s
16 births
- 1980s
1980s
20 births
- 1990s
1990s
28 births
- 2000s
2000s
31 births
- 2010s
2010s
40 births
- 2020s
2020s
22 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 40 births (22% of all-time use).
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- Dervin's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (40 total births) through the 2020s (22) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1953–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Dervin: Baby Name Since 1953 - 186 Births, Peak 2014." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/dervin. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Dervin draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.