Dereon
Masculine
Dereon is given to both — 1,204 boys and 367 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Dereon is a surname that became a brand and then a first name, in that order and within about three years. It was a grandmother's married name, a fashion label was called after her, and the label put the word in front of a very large number of people at once.
How old is the name Dereon?
Dereon first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Dereon alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,200 people named Dereon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dereon most popular?
Dereon peaked in 2008, reaching #882 nationally. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Dereon
The line was launched in the middle of the two thousands and named after the designer's grandmother, a seamstress in Louisiana who had made clothes for a living and whose married name it was; the point of the naming was explicitly to honor her. Within a couple of years the word was on billboards, labels and the sides of buses. Names get into circulation this way more often than the romantic account of naming allows: somebody hears a word constantly, likes the sound, and uses it, without any of the history attached. What makes this one unusual is that the whole chain is documented. A woman existed, her name went onto a company, the company put it into the language, and families took it from there, and every step of that can be dated.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The surname is Creole Louisianan and its own origin is not documented; it may be a French name reshaped or a local formation. Nothing about the name describes a person, and the route it took into the birth records runs through a clothing line rather than through a family, for almost everybody who now carries it.
Pronouncing Dereon
duh-REE-on
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The first vowel is reduced to nothing, which is why the name is also written Dareon and Darion with no change in how it is said.
Nicknames for Dereon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1990
- Most boys named
- 2008238 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #882reached in 2008
- Change vs 2023
- +66.7%10 in 2024, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Dereons among us
people named Dereon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Dereon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The rhythm is easy and every sound in it is ordinary English.
- Ron is a complete, plain name sitting in the back half.
- It works for a child of either sex, which the record confirms.
- The record carries it for girls as well as boys, so it signals nothing on a form.
- The brand association is strong for anyone who was shopping in that decade.
- There is no meaning to give a child, only a grandmother and a label.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dereons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Dereon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dereon in 2025?
- Dereon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Dereon with classmates?
- Dereon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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