Darelle
Darelle was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 295 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darelle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,578, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1989, the peak
Darelle peaked in 1989, when 23 babies were given it (18 boys, #3,222 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #12,578 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,614 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,926 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,905 | 3.6 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,449 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,230 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,888 | 3.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,843 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,646 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,685 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #10,719 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,237 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,736 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,160 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,143 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,955 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,421 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,476 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,166 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,629 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,222 | 9.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,226 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,224 | 8.0 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,686 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,110 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,271 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,593 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,799 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,220 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,448 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,247 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,191 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,645 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,382 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 295 Americans recorded as Darelle, 4% are girls and 96% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Darelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 283 Americans named Darelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 26 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 320 people named Darelle (87 women and girls, 233 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 286 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,937 babies since 1880, Darelle is the fourth most given (6.0% of them).
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 Darelle
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 Darelle and names like it
- Compare Darelle and DaryleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDarelle peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Darelle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Darelle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.