How Many People Are Named Darell?

4,322

people named Darell are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 79,080 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,430 babies named Darell in Social Security records from 1914 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,073

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,526

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Peak Year

1988

103 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: DER-əl, DAR-əl
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of DARRELL.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Darell in English. Counting Darell and these spellings together, about 262,335 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.2%
Male
99.8%

Almost all of the babies given the name Darell (99.8%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Darell alive today is about 39 years old, and 42% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 20 and 59 in 2025.

Under 30 1,487
34.4%
30 to 59 1,811
41.9%
60 and over 1,024
23.7%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Darell first appears in the records in 1914 and was given most often in 1988, to 103 babies. In 2025, 87 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1914 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Darell has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #812, in 1948. In 2025 it ranked #1,828.

Boys
Rank in 2025#1,828
Best rank#812 (1948)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,127 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Darell alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Darell were born in California than in any other state: about 284 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Darell was given 2.2 times as often in Louisiana, 1.9 times in California and 1.9 times in Michigan.

California 284
New York 194
Texas 179
Florida 103
Illinois 95
Michigan 88
New Jersey 61
Louisiana 56
Pennsylvania 53
Ohio 43
Maryland 36
Missouri 28
Tennessee 27
South Carolina 17
Georgia 16
Virginia 14
North Carolina 12
Colorado 9
Indiana 8
Massachusetts 5
Alabama 4
Mississippi 4
Kentucky 4
Oklahoma 3
Oregon 3
North Dakota 3
West Virginia 3
Minnesota 2
Kansas 2
Washington 2

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