Darell
Darell was given to 87 boys in 2025, #1,828 among boys’ names; 5,430 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,280 Americans named Darell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 21 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darell?
#1,828 among boys’ names, 2025
Darell rose from #3,709 in 2015 to #1,828 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.1 to 50.9 per million.
103 babies in 1988, the peak
Darell peaked in 1988, when 103 babies were given it (98 boys, #980 among boys’ names). The 87 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87 | #1,828 | 50.9 |
| 2024 | 80 | #1,960 | 46.4 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,228 | 37.4 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,246 | 36.7 |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,305 | 34.3 |
| 2020 | 78 | #1,898 | 45.2 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,113 | 37.9 |
| 2018 | 80 | #1,874 | 44.0 |
| 2017 | 44 | #2,766 | 23.8 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,705 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,709 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,099 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,425 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,011 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,671 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,743 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,763 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 53 | #2,410 | 26.0 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,616 | 22.6 |
| 2006 | 47 | #2,548 | 22.9 |
| 2005 | 47 | #2,434 | 23.5 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,164 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,860 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,824 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,871 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,386 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,356 | 19.8 |
| 1998 | 54 | #1,833 | 28.3 |
| 1997 | 45 | #1,997 | 23.9 |
| 1996 | 59 | #1,638 | 31.1 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,918 | 23.1 |
| 1994 | 68 | #1,419 | 35.2 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,377 | 35.7 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,263 | 40.1 |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,347 | 34.6 |
| 1990 | 98 | #1,071 | 47.7 |
| 1989 | 69 | #1,315 | 34.5 |
| 1988 | 98 | #980 | 51.2 |
| 1987 | 77 | #1,096 | 41.2 |
| 1986 | 95 | #938 | 51.6 |
| 1985 | 88 | #969 | 47.6 |
| 1984 | 65 | #1,123 | 36.0 |
| 1983 | 50 | #1,315 | 27.9 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,256 | 30.3 |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,249 | 30.1 |
| 1980 | 52 | #1,296 | 29.1 |
| 1979 | 55 | #1,245 | 31.9 |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,244 | 31.7 |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,246 | 31.0 |
| 1976 | 59 | #1,102 | 37.6 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,242 | 30.1 |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,201 | 30.5 |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,224 | 29.5 |
| 1972 | 57 | #1,072 | 35.2 |
| 1971 | 66 | #1,000 | 37.3 |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,093 | 30.1 |
| 1969 | 74 | #887 | 41.4 |
| 1968 | 70 | #866 | 40.3 |
| 1967 | 66 | #887 | 37.8 |
| 1966 | 71 | #862 | 39.8 |
| 1965 | 61 | #944 | 32.8 |
| 1964 | 65 | #946 | 32.6 |
| 1963 | 75 | #871 | 36.9 |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,016 | 27.6 |
| 1961 | 73 | #898 | 34.4 |
| 1960 | 59 | #998 | 27.7 |
| 1959 | 81 | #837 | 37.9 |
| 1958 | 81 | #837 | 38.2 |
| 1957 | 78 | #850 | 36.2 |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,010 | 26.0 |
| 1955 | 60 | #973 | 29.1 |
| 1954 | 65 | #920 | 31.9 |
| 1953 | 64 | #897 | 32.4 |
| 1952 | 56 | #953 | 28.8 |
| 1951 | 66 | #857 | 35.1 |
| 1950 | 56 | #918 | 31.3 |
| 1949 | 51 | #972 | 28.7 |
| 1948 | 70 | #812 | 39.9 |
| 1947 | 67 | #844 | 36.6 |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,131 | 23.4 |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,042 | 28.2 |
| 1944 | 42 | #1,006 | 30.8 |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,023 | 30.1 |
| 1942 | 61 | #835 | 44.2 |
| 1941 | 42 | #990 | 34.2 |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,094 | 31.1 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,277 | 24.4 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,225 | 26.1 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,239 | 27.2 |
| 1936 | 34 | #1,122 | 32.8 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,552 | 19.2 |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,194 | 30.0 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,337 | 25.2 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,294 | 26.8 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,652 | 18.3 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,205 | 11.8 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,489 | 22.3 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,533 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 9 | #2,957 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,001 | 14.4 |
| 1925 | 9 | #2,976 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,076 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,657 | 10.0 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,265 | 12.9 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,272 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,639 | 10.3 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,296 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,322 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,297 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,590 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,954 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,714 | 10.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darell has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 112 years of records.
Girls and boys named Darell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darell, and how old are they?
4,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 5,430 Americans ever recorded as Darell. The median Darell alive today is 40 years old; half are between 21 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 3,793 people named Darell (59 women and girls, 3,734 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,123 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 130 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 813 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 818 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,090 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 683 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 745 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Darell born?
The states with the most babies named Darell are Texas, Florida and New Jersey, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,359 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,072 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #847 | 0.4× |
| California | 6 | #2,255 | 0.6× |
| New York | 5 | #1,821 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,334 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 5 | #879 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Darell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Darell?
Darell is a less common spelling of Darrell: SSA has recorded 5,430 Darell and 160,952 Darrell since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 370,680 babies since 1880, Darell is the sixth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 87 of their 1,483 babies (5.9%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Darell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Darell and names like it
- Compare Darell and DarrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDarell peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darell since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Darell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Darell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.