Meaning not yet researched.
Derrell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #780 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #780 in 1958; #8,422 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Derrell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,422 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #780.
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Derrell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #780 in 1958 · most boys in one year: 136 (1987).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Derrell, making it the 8,422nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,725 places from #10,147 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 7 boys named Derrell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #780, reached in 1958. The most boys given the name in a single year was 136, in 1987. For comparison, it was #4,585 in 2015 and #1,012 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Derrell in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 5,880 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,017 babies named Derrell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 154 US boys were named Derrell; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Derrel, Derrill and Derell 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Derrel (1,181), Derrill (787), Derell (731), Derral (418), Derril (198), Dyrell (171), Derrall (114), Derelle (80), Derel (65), Deriel (57), Derrelle (36), Derrol (27), 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 Derrell 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 | — | — | 9 | #8,422 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,147 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,628 |
| 2022 | — | — | 9 | #8,477 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,217 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,516 |
| 2019 | — | — | 19 | #5,007 |
| 2018 | — | — | 24 | #4,261 |
| 2017 | — | — | 21 | #4,638 |
| 2016 | — | — | 25 | #4,125 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,585 |
| 2014 | — | — | 27 | #3,816 |
| 2013 | — | — | 37 | #3,012 |
| 2012 | — | — | 47 | #2,606 |
| 2011 | — | — | 33 | #3,322 |
| 2010 | — | — | 41 | #2,885 |
| 2009 | — | — | 53 | #2,414 |
| 2008 | — | — | 37 | #3,120 |
| 2007 | — | — | 43 | #2,771 |
| 2006 | — | — | 41 | #2,796 |
| 2005 | — | — | 53 | #2,249 |
| 2004 | — | — | 44 | #2,501 |
| 2003 | — | — | 35 | #2,801 |
| 2002 | — | — | 39 | #2,517 |
| 2001 | — | — | 43 | #2,317 |
| 2000 | — | — | 46 | #2,177 |
| 1999 | — | — | 49 | #1,972 |
| 1998 | — | — | 63 | #1,648 |
| 1997 | — | — | 48 | #1,912 |
| 1996 | — | — | 58 | #1,658 |
| 1995 | — | — | 56 | #1,629 |
| 1994 | — | — | 97 | #1,157 |
| 1993 | — | — | 87 | #1,209 |
| 1992 | — | — | 78 | #1,281 |
| 1991 | — | — | 112 | #1,017 |
| 1990 | — | — | 131 | #901 |
| 1989 | — | — | 128 | #893 |
| 1988 | — | — | 133 | #819 |
| 1987 | — | — | 136 | #795 |
| 1986 | — | — | 113 | #854 |
| 1985 | — | — | 107 | #878 |
| 1984 | — | — | 77 | #1,014 |
| 1983 | — | — | 85 | #958 |
| 1982 | — | — | 92 | #935 |
| 1981 | — | — | 76 | #1,045 |
| 1980 | — | — | 70 | #1,082 |
| 1979 | — | — | 91 | #920 |
| 1978 | — | — | 76 | #991 |
| 1977 | — | — | 62 | #1,105 |
| 1976 | — | — | 65 | #1,031 |
| 1975 | — | — | 65 | #1,022 |
| 1974 | — | — | 51 | #1,154 |
| 1973 | — | — | 70 | #966 |
| 1972 | — | — | 63 | #1,016 |
| 1971 | — | — | 63 | #1,027 |
| 1970 | — | — | 68 | #983 |
| 1969 | — | — | 80 | #857 |
| 1968 | — | — | 63 | #913 |
| 1967 | — | — | 53 | #997 |
| 1966 | — | — | 74 | #845 |
| 1965 | — | — | 63 | #931 |
| 1964 | — | — | 82 | #842 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,835 | 77 | #857 |
| 1962 | — | — | 71 | #903 |
| 1961 | — | — | 75 | #885 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,589 | 72 | #893 |
| 1959 | — | — | 68 | #930 |
| 1958 | — | — | 92 | #780 |
| 1957 | — | — | 87 | #808 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,446 | 57 | #991 |
| 1955 | — | — | 83 | #803 |
| 1954 | — | — | 75 | #835 |
| 1953 | — | — | 76 | #826 |
| 1952 | — | — | 72 | #828 |
| 1951 | — | — | 61 | #904 |
| 1950 | — | — | 48 | #1,012 |
| 1949 | — | — | 56 | #927 |
| 1948 | — | — | 57 | #911 |
| 1947 | — | — | 47 | #1,054 |
| 1946 | — | — | 49 | #954 |
| 1945 | — | — | 43 | #974 |
| 1944 | — | — | 50 | #898 |
| 1943 | — | — | 51 | #933 |
| 1942 | — | — | 47 | #974 |
| 1941 | — | — | 46 | #942 |
| 1940 | — | — | 50 | #897 |
| 1939 | — | — | 51 | #861 |
| 1938 | — | — | 52 | #861 |
| 1937 | — | — | 42 | #972 |
| 1936 | — | — | 41 | #977 |
| 1935 | — | — | 47 | #926 |
| 1934 | — | — | 42 | #989 |
| 1933 | — | — | 46 | #928 |
| 1932 | — | — | 43 | #1,009 |
| 1931 | — | — | 29 | #1,290 |
| 1930 | — | — | 22 | #1,573 |
| 1929 | — | — | 28 | #1,346 |
| 1928 | — | — | 19 | #1,776 |
| 1927 | — | — | 22 | #1,657 |
| 1926 | — | — | 15 | #2,094 |
| 1925 | — | — | 22 | #1,640 |
| 1924 | — | — | 22 | #1,686 |
| 1923 | — | — | 20 | #1,771 |
| 1922 | — | — | 18 | #1,907 |
| 1921 | — | — | 19 | #1,845 |
| 1920 | — | — | 14 | #2,246 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,311 |
| 1918 | — | — | 13 | #2,286 |
| 1917 | — | — | 15 | #2,007 |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,769 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,676 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,637 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,509 |
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).