girls:
135 births since 1990
#5581 (2nd percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1967
#3223 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1967
#6197 (20th percentile)
The name Derian is the #6,197 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,549 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 19.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,223 (29.7% percentile) for all time with 1,414 births since 1967. For girls, it ranks #5,581 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 135 births since 1990.
Derian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for boys and 1990 for girls). Birth data for Derian is available in 47 out of the 57 years between 1967 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 13 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 Derian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Derian reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 10.3% percentile (ranked #698) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 42 births per million (ranked 10.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Derian ranks #880 for boys (3.4% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 46.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Derian reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #833) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Derian".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Derian is pronounced as DEH-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables.
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