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Dermot

Boys' name

Possibly un-, dis- + injunction, through Diarmaid

Dermot has been given to 482 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1969, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Dermot, 2022

1 in 423,000

Dermot over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dermot: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly un-, dis- + injunction, through Diarmaid

Irish

What Dermot means

Dermot belongs to the name family reached through Dermot → Diarmaid. Its meaning is “un-, dis- + injunction”.

Origin, language, and formation

Dermot is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Dermot comes through Irish Diarmaid.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jeremy and Diarmaid.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dermot is pronounced /ˈdɝmət/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 482 boys were recorded with the name Dermot between 1917 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1969; its best national rank was #2,155 in 1969.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dermot?

Dermot had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 423,000
8 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 218,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
293,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dermot sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 293,354 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dermot. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dermots were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dermot was born before 1974 — so the typical Dermot is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
21.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
451
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 21.8% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Dermot 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1969 (16)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,155
1969

Spellings of Dermot

Dermot is not the most common spelling — Kermit is, with 47.0% against Dermot's 1.4%.

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 Dermot is used

Across 1910–2025, Dermot was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 289,649 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Dermot has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dermot around the world

Where Dermot ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    1999–2010
    #548
    in 2010
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2017
    #415
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    1964–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1955–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dermot by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,155
1969
Peak year
1969
16 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
482
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dermot

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Dermot

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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