Meaning and Origin of: Derry

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Redhead

Girl name variations

Boy name origins & meanings

  • German : Ruler

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.