Darrell
Darrell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 123 births. Its best rank was 86th, in 1967–1968.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1230.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19584,770 births
- Best rank
- #86first in 1967
- Since 1886
- 160,855people given the name
The story in the numbers
159,669 boys have been named Darrell in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 4,770 births — 0.22% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 123 births in 2024, against 4,770 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1960s alone account for 24%. It has spent 122 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 13 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,186 girls have also been given it, 0.74% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Darrell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 64 | |
| 1900s | 125 | |
| 1910s | 1,642 | |
| 1920s | 5,128 | |
| 1930s | 11,125 | |
| 1940s | 18,226 | |
| 1950s | 37,258 | |
| 1960s | 38,024 | |
| 1970s | 20,072 | |
| 1980s | 13,165 | |
| 1990s | 7,556 | |
| 2000s | 4,108 | |
| 2010s | 2,534 | |
| 2020s | 637 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Darrell was the 90th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1958 were Michael, David, James, Robert and John. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Darrell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Douglaspeak 1957
- Montypeak 1961
- Delpeak 1958
- Montepeak 1956
- Kentpeak 1962
- Mickeypeak 1957
- Davidpeak 1955
- Kenneypeak 1960
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.