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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Derry

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

1,541

peak year 1957

More common than

91%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1957
50 births
Best rank
#1,076
in 1957
First recorded
1914
#2,996 that year
Last recorded
2016
no later published record
Average birth year
1961
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
93 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 195750#1,076Peak
  2. 195843#1,175
  3. 195340#1,173
  4. 196136#1,328
  5. 196436#1,318

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,076 in 1957 · peak births 50 in 1957

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 92% boys■ 8% girls

1,541 boys · 137 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Derry has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.