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Deron vs Derwin

American parents have registered 5,744 Derons since 1880, against 3,833 Derwins. But in 2025 it was Derwin that was commoner, 16 babies to 8.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deron against Derwin, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deron Derwin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 107 years in which either name was published, Deron for 60 years and Derwin for 47 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Deron Derwin
Total US births 5,7443,833
Most in one year 270140
Babies in 2025 816
Estimated living today 5,3003,100
Median age today 3954
Peak year 19661958
Best rank 465th boys649th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910th5,608th
First recorded 19561916
Girls / boys 35 / 5,7090 / 3,833

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Derwins alive today are over 54; half the Derons are over 39. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Deron and Derwin.