girls:
10 births since 1955
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
29 births since 1987
#4557 (1st percentile)
overall:
39 births since 1955
#7700 (0th percentile)
The name Derby is the #7,700 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 39 recorded births since 1955. This represents the 0.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,557 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 1987. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1955.
Derby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1955 (1955 for girls and 1987 for boys). Birth data for Derby is available in 7 out of the 65 years between 1955 and 2019 (5 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Derby has been given predominantly to boys, with 74.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2019, 0.0% of babies named Derby were boys. Interestingly, until around 1987, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1955 to 1986), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (85.3% boys from 1987 to 2019).
For boys, Derby reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #711) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2011.
For girls, Derby reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #945) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Derby".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Derby is pronounced as DER-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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