Derrian
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Derrian has been given to 764 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 2000, with 35 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.
Babies named Derrian, 2021
1 in 424,000
Derrian 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Derrian over time
In 2021, Derrian went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Derrian?
Derrian had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 424,000
- 8 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 219,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 293,719 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Derrian sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 293,719 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derrian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Derrians were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Derrian was born before 2000 — so the typical Derrian is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 33.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 676
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (223).
Is Derrian 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2000 (35)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.7% average annual change
Spellings of Derrian
Derrian is not the most common spelling — Derrick is, with 57.3% against Derrian's 0.27%.
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 Derrian is used
Across 1910–2025, Derrian was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 442,633 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in —
- 2Mississippi1 in —
- 3Texas1 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. Derrian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Derrian by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Derrian
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Derrian
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.