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Derren

Boys' name

Variant of Darren

Derren has been given to 409 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 2012, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Derren, 2018

1 in 703,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Derren: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Darren

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Derren means

Derren is a variant of Darren.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Derren is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɛɹ.ən/ for Derren.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Derren → Darren. The family’s proposed meaning is “oak”, recorded in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Darren.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 409 boys were recorded with the name Derren between 1964 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2012; its best national rank was #2,508 in 1967.

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 Derren?

Derren had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Derren 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Derrens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Derren was born before 1993 — so the typical Derren is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
409
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (92).

Is Derren 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 2012 (17)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,508
1967

Spellings of Derren

Derren is not the most common spelling — Derek is, with 33.7% against Derren's 0.06%.

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.

Derren around the world

Where Derren 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
    1996–2014
    #2,964
    in 2014
  • Scotland
    1996–2015
    #686
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1965–1986
    #460
    in 1986

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

Derren 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
#2,508
1967
Peak year
2012
17 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
409
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Derren

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

DerenDervinDerrisDerralKhyrenDerianDerronDermotThorenDericoDerriusKierenFarrenDerinDeriusDeryckDeranJayrenCurrenDerrinTaurenDerellJeyrenDereke

Sibling names for Derren

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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