Deryl
Deryl was last recorded in 2003, when 7 babies were given it; 2,016 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Deryl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 55 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deryl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deryl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,890, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
73 babies in 1957, the peak
Deryl peaked in 1957, when 73 babies were given it (56 boys, #1,016 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | #8,890 | 3.5 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,417 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,073 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,747 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,183 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,153 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,872 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,324 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,613 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,448 | 2.4 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 7 | #6,386 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,775 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,645 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,937 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,977 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,763 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,223 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,697 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,917 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 15 | #2,993 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,691 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,700 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,684 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,127 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,225 | 12.8 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,066 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,424 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,100 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 25 | #1,795 | 14.1 |
| 1970 | 31 | #1,526 | 16.7 |
| 1969 | 32 | #1,420 | 17.9 |
| 1968 | 31 | #1,404 | 17.8 |
| 1967 | 27 | #1,482 | 15.5 |
| 1966 | 21 | #1,693 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 26 | #1,530 | 14.0 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,292 | 18.6 |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,324 | 17.2 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,176 | 21.3 |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,098 | 24.0 |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,253 | 18.3 |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,120 | 22.5 |
| 1958 | 51 | #1,072 | 24.0 |
| 1957 | 56 | #1,016 | 26.0 |
| 1956 | 49 | #1,083 | 23.2 |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,106 | 21.8 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,084 | 23.5 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,140 | 21.3 |
| 1952 | 41 | #1,155 | 21.1 |
| 1951 | 49 | #1,005 | 26.0 |
| 1950 | 49 | #989 | 27.4 |
| 1949 | 45 | #1,049 | 25.4 |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,283 | 18.2 |
| 1947 | 51 | #1,001 | 27.9 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,361 | 16.6 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,275 | 20.1 |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,196 | 22.7 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,853 | 11.2 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,693 | 13.0 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,498 | 17.1 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,010 | 11.2 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,403 | 20.8 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,628 | 16.2 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,234 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,657 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,461 | 21.1 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,432 | 22.3 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,554 | 20.2 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,476 | 22.0 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,503 | 21.2 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,767 | 16.4 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,809 | 16.7 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,777 | 17.2 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,435 | 10.6 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,220 | 12.6 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,216 | 12.5 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,259 | 12.4 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,233 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,666 | 10.1 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,671 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,567 | 6.6 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,456 | 6.9 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,964 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Deryl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,016 Americans recorded as Deryl, 9% are girls and 91% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Deryl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deryl, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 61% of the 2,016 Americans ever recorded as Deryl. The median Deryl alive today is 65 years old; half are between 55 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 1,421 people named Deryl (205 women and girls, 1,216 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,400 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 82 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 676 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 317 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 131 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 30 |
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).
Where are babies named Deryl born?
The states with the most babies named Deryl are Texas, California and Florida, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 151 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 54 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kansas | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Iowa | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Deryl is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deryl is most over-represented in Texas: since 1915 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Deryl with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,563 babies since 1880, Deryl is the most given (31% 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 Deryl
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 Deryl and names like it
- Compare Deryl and DerrelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDeryl peaked in 1957.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deryl since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Deryl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Deryl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.