Derry
Derry is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195750 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1914
- 1,678people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,541 boys have been named Derry in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 50 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 50 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1950s alone account for 22%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 137 girls have also been given it, 8.2% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Derry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 20 | |
| 1920s | 67 | |
| 1930s | 155 | |
| 1940s | 201 | |
| 1950s | 335 | |
| 1960s | 261 | |
| 1970s | 187 | |
| 1980s | 131 | |
| 1990s | 102 | |
| 2000s | 63 | |
| 2010s | 19 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Derry was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1957 were Michael, James, David, Robert and John. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Derry
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Derylpeak 1957
- Kennithpeak 1956
- Dwainpeak 1959
- Frankiepeak 1959
- Darrelpeak 1960
- Johnnypeak 1947
- Kenneypeak 1960
- Dwanepeak 1963
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.