Meaning not yet researched.
Derrion: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,662 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,662 in 2001; #6,904 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Derrion in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,904 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,662.
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Derrion: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,662 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 89 (2008).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Derrion, making it the 6,904th most common boys’ name of the year, up 25 places from #6,929 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 12 boys named Derrion in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,662, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 89, in 2008. For comparison, it was #3,246 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Derrion in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 7 babies. In all, 1,516 US babies have been given the name, 3.0% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 655 babies named Derrion.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 185 US boys were named Derrion; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Deron (5,744 babies since 1880), Derian (1,659 babies since 1880), Dereon (1,571 babies since 1880) and Derion (1,076 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Derrione 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: Derrione (5).
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 Derrion 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 | — | — | 12 | #6,904 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #6,929 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,391 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,224 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,816 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,742 |
| 2019 | — | — | 23 | #4,371 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,396 |
| 2017 | — | — | 27 | #3,906 |
| 2016 | — | — | 23 | #4,359 |
| 2015 | — | — | 35 | #3,246 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,713 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,120 | 31 | #3,432 |
| 2012 | — | — | 44 | #2,727 |
| 2011 | — | — | 48 | #2,553 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,864 | 69 | #1,987 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,163 | 79 | #1,854 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,932 | 89 | #1,714 |
| 2007 | — | — | 89 | #1,702 |
| 2006 | — | — | 66 | #2,019 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,194 | 47 | #2,441 |
| 2004 | — | — | 49 | #2,322 |
| 2003 | — | — | 53 | #2,108 |
| 2002 | — | — | 36 | #2,651 |
| 2001 | — | — | 70 | #1,662 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,693 | 50 | #2,023 |
| 1999 | — | — | 55 | #1,805 |
| 1998 | — | — | 33 | #2,570 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,332 | 30 | #2,632 |
| 1996 | — | — | 34 | #2,344 |
| 1995 | — | — | 32 | #2,411 |
| 1994 | — | — | 38 | #2,132 |
| 1993 | — | — | 32 | #2,363 |
| 1992 | — | — | 20 | #3,249 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,851 |
| 1990 | — | — | 25 | #2,637 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,665 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,244 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,082 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,126 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,289 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,286 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,223 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #3,938 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,719 |
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).