Deryl
Deryl is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 990th, in 1950.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195756 births
- Best rank
- #990in 1950
- Since 1915
- 2,016people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,826 boys have been named Deryl in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 56 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 56 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1950s alone account for 26%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 190 girls have also been given it, 9.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1957, its biggest year
Deryl 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 Deryl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dwainpeak 1959
- Derrypeak 1957
- Duanepeak 1959
- Dwainepeak 1959
- Dalepeak 1958
- Kennithpeak 1956
- Darrelpeak 1960
- Donnpeak 1949
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.