How Many People Are Named Darrel?
people named Darrel are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 19,128 people in the US has this name
Based on 29,892 babies named Darrel in Social Security records from 1900 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
664 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
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 Darrel in English. Counting Darrel and these spellings together, about 262,335 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Darrel (99.5%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Darrel alive today is about 59 years old, and 56% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 49 and 71 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Darrel first appears in the records in 1900 and was given most often in 1960, to 664 babies. In 2025, 17 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1900 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Darrel has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #243, in 1939. In 2025 it ranked #5,433.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #5,433 |
| Best rank | #243 (1939) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #295 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Darrel alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Darrel were born in California than in any other state: about 1,586 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Darrel was given 4.8 times as often in South Dakota, 4 times in Kansas and 3.8 times in North Dakota.
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