Deryn

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Deryn: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Deryn: Recorded since 1996, it reached #896 in 2015, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#896highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#2411
1998	#2165
1999	#2770
2000	#2416
2001	#3262
2002	#1372
2003	#1843
2004	#1836
2005	#1589
2006	#2320
2007	#2895
2008	#2150
2009	#2326
2010	#3156
2012	#3285
2016	#4096
2017	#5765
2018	#3178
2019	#5591
2020	#3899
2021	#4634
2022	#3970
2023	#3218
2024	#4843

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 25 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Deryn appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 175 births with the name.

Deryn across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Deryn's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#1372 (2002)	#4843 (2024)	25 of 29	175 (1996–2024)	14 (2002)
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#2254 (2002)	#4789 (2022)	14 of 27	51 (1996–2022)	5 (2002)

Deryn by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Deryn in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	22	4 of 10	6
2000sbusiest	96	10 of 10	10
2010s	32	6 of 10	5
2020s	25	5 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Deryn appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #896 in Republic of Ireland in 2015.

Deryn's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2326	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2150	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2320	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1589	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1836	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1372	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #896, first reached in 2015.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 14 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 19 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aphra · #896, 21y
Elisse · #896, 21y
Haylie · #896, 21y
Joana · #896, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aphra · #896, 21y
Caia · #896, 19y
Elisse · #896, 21y
Haylie · #896, 21y

Deryn was ranked #896 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2015. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Deryn and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Deryn without appearing here.

Deryn moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3262 and #2226 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1372 and #4137.
Fionn Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3262 and #3262 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1372 and #4137.
Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3156 and #1731 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3178 and #5666.
Kristy Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3285 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3178 and #5666.

Moved ahead of Deryn

Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3156 and #5707 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2706.
Finley Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4096 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #3583.
Malin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3285 and #3681 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #2120.
Meabh Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3285 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #2233.

Moved the opposite way to Deryn

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Deryn went from #3126 to #4843 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Deryn went from #3126 to #4843 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Deryn went from #3126 to #4843 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Deryn went from #3126 to #4843 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Deryn

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Deryn went from #3126 to #4843 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Deryn went from #3126 to #4843 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Deryn went from #3126 to #4843 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Deryn went from #3126 to #4843 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #896 in Republic of Ireland in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Deryn

Deryn at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Deryn across 2 official records

Deryn by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Deryn appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Deryn across 2 official records

Deryn by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Deryn appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Deryn

Deryn and the names beside it

Deryn moved ahead of

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