Derran
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Derran has been given to 67 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1992, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Derran, 2008
1 in 786,000
Derran 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Derran?
Derran had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 786,000
- 5 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 408,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 544,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Derran sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Derrans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Derran was born before 1978 — so the typical Derran is around 47 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 35.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 67
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (24).
Is Derran 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 1992 (9)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.9% average annual change
Spellings of Derran
Derran is not the most common spelling — Dean is, with 28.2% against Derran'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.
Derran around the world
Where Derran 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 & Wales1997–2005#3,849in 2005
- South Australia1961–1997#543in 1997
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Derran by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Derran
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Derran
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.