Derya

Girls' name

Sea

Derya has been given to 173 babies in the U.S. since 1984. 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 1991, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Derya, 2023

1 in 663,000

Derya over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Derya: meaning, origin, and history

Sea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Derya means

Derya means “sea”, associated with derya.

Origin, language, and formation

Derya is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 173 girls were recorded with the name Derya between 1984 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1991; its best national rank was #7,536 in 1991.

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 Derya?

Derya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Derya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Derya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deryas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Derya was born before 2005 — so the typical Derya is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 68.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 173; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Derya 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 1991 (11)
Years since peak: 34; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,536; 1991

Spellings of Derya

Derya is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 37.2% against Derya's 0.01%.

Debra37.2%550,695
Vera10.1%149,456
Dora7.2%105,930
Della4.8%70,810
Verna4.7%69,113
Erma3.7%54,949
Darla2.9%43,667
Delia2.5%37,318

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.

Derya around the world

Where Derya 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
1996–2024
#5,892
in 2024
France
1974–2025
#4,622
in 2025
South Australia
1988–1988
#657
in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Derya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #7,536; 1991
Peak year: 1991; 11 that year
First recorded: 1984
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 173
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Derya

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

Derin Deryl Deryn Derry Deriyah Sarya Derra Surya Narya Amarya Azarya Derian Derri Zarya Arrya Brya Zorya Dereon Derrika Der Deron Derita Dereka Derek

Sibling names for Derya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shaniqua Chanelle Ileana Amberly Iesha Elvia Kacy Maegan

For a brother

Shay Jamil Laron Paris Coty Rico Malcom German

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