Derna
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Derna has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1912, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Derna, 1957
1 in 840,000
Derna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Derna?
Derna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1957, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1957
- 1 in 840,000
- 5 of 4,201,368 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 409,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1957
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 582,434 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Derna sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1957 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 582,434 children born in 1957 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dernas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Derna was born before 1914 — so the typical Derna is around 111 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 83.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 83.9% of all recorded uses (26).
Is Derna 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 1912 (10)
- Years since peak
- 113
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.9% average annual change
Spellings of Derna
Derna is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 20.2% against Derna's <0.01%.
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.
Derna around the world
Where Derna 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.
- France1912–1914#824in 1914
- South Australia1945–1946#367in 1946
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Derna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Derna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Derna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.