Meaning not yet researched.
Deron: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #465 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #465 in 1966; #9,117 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deron in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,117 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #465.
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Deron: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #465 in 1966 · most boys in one year: 270 (1966).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Deron, making it the 9,117th most common boys’ name of the year, down 4,375 places from #4,742 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 21 boys named Deron in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #465, reached in 1966. That year also had the most boys given the name: 270. For comparison, it was #3,714 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deron in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 5,744 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,339 babies named Deron.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 249 US boys were named Deron; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Derian (1,659 babies since 1880), Dereon (1,571 babies since 1880), Derrion (1,516 babies since 1880) and Derion (1,076 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Derron, Derin and Derrin are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Derron (1,536), Derin (1,151), Derrin (678), Dyron (554), Derren (409), Deaaron (312), Deren (236), Deryn (234), Diron (174), Deran (169), Derreon (129), Dearion (80), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Deron in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,117 |
| 2024 | — | — | 21 | #4,742 |
| 2023 | — | — | 22 | #4,631 |
| 2022 | — | — | 24 | #4,336 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,173 |
| 2020 | — | — | 31 | #3,509 |
| 2019 | — | — | 26 | #4,034 |
| 2018 | — | — | 30 | #3,623 |
| 2017 | — | — | 37 | #3,138 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,459 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,714 |
| 2014 | — | — | 43 | #2,766 |
| 2013 | — | — | 67 | #2,027 |
| 2012 | — | — | 74 | #1,925 |
| 2011 | — | — | 72 | #1,934 |
| 2010 | — | — | 68 | #2,018 |
| 2009 | — | — | 96 | #1,644 |
| 2008 | — | — | 104 | #1,546 |
| 2007 | — | — | 72 | #1,960 |
| 2006 | — | — | 76 | #1,810 |
| 2005 | — | — | 77 | #1,727 |
| 2004 | — | — | 49 | #2,321 |
| 2003 | — | — | 50 | #2,185 |
| 2002 | — | — | 60 | #1,874 |
| 2001 | — | — | 67 | #1,717 |
| 2000 | — | — | 67 | #1,702 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,831 |
| 1998 | — | — | 64 | #1,626 |
| 1997 | — | — | 75 | #1,442 |
| 1996 | — | — | 82 | #1,323 |
| 1995 | — | — | 77 | #1,341 |
| 1994 | — | — | 83 | #1,282 |
| 1993 | — | — | 116 | #1,024 |
| 1992 | — | — | 124 | #969 |
| 1991 | — | — | 121 | #968 |
| 1990 | — | — | 140 | #864 |
| 1989 | — | — | 131 | #880 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,868 | 127 | #844 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,777 | 137 | #789 |
| 1986 | — | — | 106 | #883 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,085 | 95 | #934 |
| 1984 | — | — | 85 | #962 |
| 1983 | — | — | 75 | #1,024 |
| 1982 | — | — | 57 | #1,235 |
| 1981 | — | — | 69 | #1,097 |
| 1980 | — | — | 66 | #1,113 |
| 1979 | — | — | 73 | #1,035 |
| 1978 | — | — | 72 | #1,029 |
| 1977 | — | — | 77 | #976 |
| 1976 | — | — | 89 | #884 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,241 | 121 | #758 |
| 1974 | — | — | 137 | #701 |
| 1973 | — | — | 164 | #616 |
| 1972 | — | — | 113 | #747 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,651 | 143 | #692 |
| 1970 | — | — | 146 | #685 |
| 1969 | — | — | 157 | #631 |
| 1968 | — | — | 185 | #556 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,037 | 212 | #516 |
| 1966 | — | — | 270 | #465 |
| 1965 | — | — | 263 | #479 |
| 1964 | — | — | 127 | #684 |
| 1963 | — | — | 26 | #1,550 |
| 1962 | — | — | 26 | #1,552 |
| 1961 | — | — | 48 | #1,140 |
| 1960 | — | — | 20 | #1,826 |
| 1959 | — | — | 17 | #1,993 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,200 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,085 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).