Darl
Darl is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 984th, in 1931.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192846 births
- Best rank
- #984in 1931
- Since 1911
- 1,882people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,819 boys have been named Darl in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1928, with 46 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 46 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1930s alone account for 20%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 63 girls have also been given it, 3.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1928, its biggest year
Darl was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1928 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1928.
Names that rose and fell with Darl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marshellpeak 1930
- Glynpeak 1934
- Donaldpeak 1934
- Verlonpeak 1939
- Daroldpeak 1932
- Deanepeak 1947
- Arlonpeak 1933
- Doylepeak 1931
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.