Derlyn
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Derlyn by the numbers
Derlyn was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Derlyn
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Derlyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Deklynman from Ireland; a modern respelling of Declan69 in the US (2017)
- Declynfull of goodness; modern respelling of Declan53 in the US (2017)
- Derynbird5 in the US (2017)
- Devlyn23 in the US (2017)
- Declanfull of goodness3,483 in the US (2017)
- Devynfawn-like; a modern respelling of Devin313 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Derlyn
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