Derwood
Derwood was last recorded in 1976, when 5 babies were given it; 1,021 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Derwood by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Derwood?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,814, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1919, the peak
Derwood peaked in 1919, when 34 boys were given it, #1,212 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | #5,814 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,280 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,094 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,770 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,545 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,798 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,821 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,309 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,291 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,711 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 14 | #2,226 | 6.9 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,018 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,235 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,447 | 5.6 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,349 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,295 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,110 | 7.1 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,742 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,489 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,117 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,960 | 8.2 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,408 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,834 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,049 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,654 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,938 | 8.7 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,525 | 13.5 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,611 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,587 | 13.9 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,539 | 14.7 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,475 | 16.7 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,236 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,918 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 13 | #1,981 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,919 | 12.6 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,846 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,554 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,365 | 24.0 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,620 | 18.4 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,660 | 18.2 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,437 | 23.0 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,404 | 24.0 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,840 | 15.5 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,491 | 22.3 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,617 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,568 | 21.3 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,481 | 22.5 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,545 | 21.5 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,467 | 23.8 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,282 | 29.2 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,439 | 24.8 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,304 | 29.1 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,468 | 24.4 |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,212 | 34.7 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,350 | 27.6 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,243 | 32.4 |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,273 | 31.5 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,615 | 22.4 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,707 | 21.5 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,922 | 18.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Derwood a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Derwood has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Derwood: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Derwood, and how old are they?
An estimated 275 Americans named Derwood and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 63 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 348 people named Derwood (0 women and girls, 348 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 357 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Derwood
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 Derwood and names like it
- Compare Derwood and ThurmonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sDerwood peaked in 1919.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Derwood since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Derwood.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Derwood alive today were born 1946-1964.
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