How Many People Are Named Darnel?
people named Darnel are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 357,515 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,052 babies named Darnel in Social Security records from 1937 to 2021, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
36 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Darnel, 4.2% were girls and 95.8% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Darnel fell from 20.8% in the 1960s to 0% in the 2000s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Darnel alive today is about 40 years old, and 59% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 28 and 52 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Darnel first appears in the records in 1937 and was given most often in 1986, to 36 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2021.
Babies given the name each year, 1937 to 2021
🏆 Rank History
Darnel has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,735, in 1986.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,735 (1986) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,446 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Darnel alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Darnel were born in New York than in any other state: about 110 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Darnel was given about 12.6 times as often in New York.
Look up another name
⊙ We don't save the names you search.