Derrie

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Derrie has been given to 73 babies in the U.S. since 1958. 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 1965, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 70% boys, 30% girls all-time.

Babies named Derrie, 1983

1 in 693,000

Derrie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Derrie over time

In 1983, Derrie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19551983

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 Derrie?

Derrie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1983
1 in 693,000
5 of 3,463,011 births
Among boys only
1 in 358,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1983
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
480,076 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Derrie 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 1983 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 480,076 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derrie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Derries were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Derrie was born before 1970 — so the typical Derrie is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
43.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
51
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1970s — 43.1% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Derrie 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 1965 (7)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,308
1966

Spellings of Derrie

Derrie is not the most common spelling — Derrick is, with 53.7% against Derrie's 0.02%.

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.

Derrie around the world

Where Derrie 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
    1996–2005
    #3,970
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Derrie 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
#3,308
1966
Peak year
1965
7 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
1983
All-time count
51
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,157
1959
Peak year
1959
7 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
1962
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Derrie

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

Sibling names for Derrie

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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