Deron
Last seen for girls in 1988 at #7,691 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1966 · 270 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,709since 1956
Deron over time
Rank among boys' names. Deron has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,701 | 21 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,610 | 22 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,303 | 24 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,110 | 18 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,497 | 31 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,003 | 26 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,607 | 30 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,123 | 37 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,441 | 32 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,684 | 29 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,754 | 43 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,021 | 67 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,923 | 74 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,927 | 72 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,010 | 68 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,638 | 96 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,543 | 104 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,951 | 72 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,808 | 76 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,725 | 77 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,316 | 49 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,180 | 50 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,869 | 60 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,710 | 67 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,699 | 67 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,824 | 54 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,622 | 64 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,438 | 75 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,321 | 82 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,338 | 77 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,281 | 83 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,023 | 116 | |
| 1992 | — | #967 | 124 | |
| 1991 | — | #967 | 121 | |
| 1990 | — | #864 | 140 | |
| 1989 | — | #878 | 131 | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #844 | 127 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #787 | 137 |
| 1986 | — | #880 | 106 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #934 | 95 |
| 1984 | — | #960 | 85 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,022 | 75 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,229 | 57 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,095 | 69 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,111 | 66 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,034 | 73 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,027 | 72 | |
| 1977 | — | #975 | 77 | |
| 1976 | — | #883 | 89 | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | #758 | 121 |
| 1974 | — | #700 | 137 | |
| 1973 | — | #616 | 164 | |
| 1972 | — | #746 | 113 | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #692 | 143 |
| 1970 | — | #685 | 146 | |
| 1969 | — | #630 | 157 | |
| 1968 | — | #555 | 185 | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | #515 | 212 |
| 1966 | — | #465 | 270 | |
| 1965 | — | #479 | 263 | |
| 1964 | — | #684 | 127 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,548 | 26 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,546 | 26 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,136 | 48 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,812 | 20 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,974 | 17 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,177 | 14 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Deron! It came in at #3,942, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1957, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Deron is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#490 · 1 in 9,171
- California#1,100 · 1 in 24,132
Best ever in a state: #176 in Ohio, 1965.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #490 | 8 | 1 in 9,171 |
| California | #1,100 | 7 | 1 in 24,132 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Deron
- 4,209 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #8,910)
- 5,413 spots since 2020 (#3,497 → #8,910)
- 5,226 spots since 2015 (#3,684 → #8,910)
- Biggest jump: 864 spots in 1964 (#1,548 → #684)
- Biggest drop: 125 spots in 1976 (#758 → #883)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1966 at #465 (270 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 1964–1977
- Highest: 1 in 6,605 boys born in 1966 were named Deron (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.4% of all boys named Deron (1,334) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 36 | #1,974 (1959) | #2,698 |
| 1960s | 1,334 | #465 (1966) | #937 |
| 1970s | 1,135 | #616 (1973) | #812 |
| 1980s | 948 | #787 (1987) | #974 |
| 1990s | 936 | #864 (1990) | #1,265 |
| 2000s | 718 | #1,543 (2008) | #1,844 |
| 2010s | 478 | #1,923 (2012) | #2,849 |
| 2020s | 124 | #3,497 (2020) | #5,189 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Deron in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 22,803 of them was named Deron, which outranked 84.8% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,011Mariano73
- #1,011Mohammed73
- #1,011Prince73
- #1,027Deron72
- #1,027Alexandro72
- #1,027Baron72
- #1,027Jarrad72
- #1,034Carter71
- #1,034Heather71
- #1,034Kedrick71
Tied with 6 names at #1,027; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.