Derion
Masculine
Derion is given to both — 1,027 boys and 49 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Derion ends with a pair of letters that English uses constantly in its vocabulary and almost never in its names. Action, nation, opinion, million: the ion ending is one of the busiest in the language, and until the last forty years it appeared in almost no first name at all.
How old is the name Derion?
Derion first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Derion alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 1,000 people named Derion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Derion most popular?
Derion peaked in 2008, reaching #1553 nationally. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From a Latin noun ending established throughout English vocabulary to Derion
Our story of Derion
A naming system that has run out of inherited material will build its own, and the pieces it builds with are chosen for sound rather than for sense. What is striking about this particular ending is that English speakers already had it in their mouths thousands of times a day — in every abstract noun the language owns — without it ever having been available for a name. Once one name used it, the block was gone, and within a generation there were dozens. That is how a suffix becomes available: somebody uses it where it does not belong, and then it belongs.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The ending in this name is not the Latin suffix — it is a sound that American naming assembled independently, and it turns up in dozens of names coined since the 1970s. The front element is one of a small productive set. Neither carries a meaning, and the resemblance to the Latin noun-ending is a coincidence of spelling rather than a borrowing.
How the name formed
- a Latin noun ending established throughout English vocabulary
- American naming assembles a similar sound independently
- the ending spreads across dozens of new names
- Derion appears in the record in the middle 1980s
- peaks in the late 2000s
Related forms: Deion · Darion
Pronouncing Derion
DEH-ree-on
Three syllables with the weight at the front, though some families move it to the middle. The spelling supports both.
Nicknames for Derion
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
- 1985
- Most boys named
- 2008103 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1553reached in 2008
- Change vs 2023
- +42.9%10 in 2024, from 7
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.
Derion in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Deion in English — related form
- Darion in English — spelling variant
Derions among us
people named Derion 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
Derion 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
- It is read correctly at sight by anybody familiar with the family it belongs to.
- Dee and Rio are both available and pull in different directions.
- It works for a child of either sex, and the record carries it on both sides.
- There are a dozen spellings of the same sound and he will be given several.
- The stress placement is unsettled between two readings.
- There is no meaning to give him and no origin beyond the pattern.
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Derion
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Frequently asked
- How many Derions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Derion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Derion in 2025?
- Derion is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Derion with classmates?
- Derion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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