Derl
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Derl has been given to 306 babies in the U.S. since 1929. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1930, with 58 recorded.
Babies named Derl, 1980
1 in 574,000
Derl over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Derl?
Derl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1980
- 1 in 574,000
- 6 of 3,444,198 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 297,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1980
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 397,891 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Derl sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1980 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 397,891 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Derls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Derl was born before 1934 — so the typical Derl is around 91 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 61.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 94
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 61.8% of all recorded uses (189).
Is Derl rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1930 (58)
- Years since peak
- 95
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.3% average annual change
Spellings of Derl
Derl is not the most common spelling — Carl is, with 28.2% against Derl's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Derl is used
Across 1910–2025, Derl was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 844,442 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in —
- 2Oklahoma1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
- 4Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Derl has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Derl by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Derl
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Derl
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.