Derna
About 31 American babies have been named Derna since 1912, most of them around 1912. It has not appeared in the national data since 1957. About 4 Dernas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Derna
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 31
- Estimated living today
- 4
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1912
- Best rank
- 1,844th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Dernas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 31 babies given the name since 1912, about 4 are alive — 13 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Names of 1912
The most popular girls’ names the year Derna peaked:
Derna elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Derna | 15 | 824th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Derna against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.