Darnel
Darnel is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 198636 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1937
- 1,052people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,006 boys have been named Darnel in the United States since 1937, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1986, with 36 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 36 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1980s alone account for 22%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 46 girls have also been given it, 4.4% of the total.
By decade
In 1986, its biggest year
Darnel was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1986 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1986.
Names that rose and fell with Darnel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bradlypeak 1990
- Dericpeak 1980
- Miquelpeak 1986
- Serjiopeak 1979
- Geraldopeak 1988
- Martinezpeak 1990
- Arnaldopeak 1989
- Brettpeak 1986
Other spellings in the data
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.