Darnell
Darnell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 61 births. Its best rank was 280th, in 1984.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 610.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1984741 births
- Best rank
- #280in 1984
- Since 1912
- 30,961people given the name
The story in the numbers
28,574 boys have been named Darnell in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1984, with 741 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1980s alone account for 22%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,387 girls have also been given it, 7.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Darnell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 63 | |
| 1920s | 197 | |
| 1930s | 294 | |
| 1940s | 633 | |
| 1950s | 2,969 | |
| 1960s | 3,689 | |
| 1970s | 4,828 | |
| 1980s | 6,295 | |
| 1990s | 4,514 | |
| 2000s | 2,878 | |
| 2010s | 1,772 | |
| 2020s | 442 |
In 1984, its biggest year
Darnell was the 280th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1984 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1984.
Names that rose and fell with Darnell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bradleypeak 1980
- Terancepeak 1991
- Arnaldopeak 1989
- Bradlypeak 1990
- Wilfredopeak 1980
- Jerardpeak 1986
- Byranpeak 1986
- Reinaldopeak 1963
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.