Girl name origins & meanings
- Irish : Redhead
Boy name origins & meanings
- German : Ruler
How Popular Is The Name Derry
Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant of Deary, or alternatively a nickname for a merchant or tradesman, from Anglo-French darree ‘pennyworth’, from Old French denree.
- Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Doiridh, the name of an eccesiastical family from Donegal, meaning ‘descendant of Doireadh’. Derry is often confused with Deery.