Dariel
Dariel was given to 1,043 boys in 2025, #327 among boys’ names; 9,455 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,190 Americans named Dariel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dariel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dariel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dariel is “a male given name.”
20th-century variant of Darrell.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dariel?
#327 among boys’ names, 2025
Dariel rose from #865 in 2015 to #327 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.14 to 0.61 per 1,000.
1,048 babies in 2025, the peak
Dariel peaked in 2025, when 1,048 babies were given it (1,043 boys, #327 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 980 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,043 | #327 | 0.61 |
| 2024 | 980 | #347 | 0.57 |
| 2023 | 878 | #369 | 0.51 |
| 2022 | 709 | #439 | 0.41 |
| 2021 | 529 | #550 | 0.30 |
| 2020 | 449 | #610 | 0.26 |
| 2019 | 408 | #653 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 401 | #644 | 0.22 |
| 2017 | 360 | #690 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 320 | #761 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 261 | #865 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 266 | #845 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 191 | #1,022 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 212 | #951 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 190 | #1,013 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 177 | #1,086 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 179 | #1,055 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 143 | #1,225 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 99 | #1,581 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 92 | #1,586 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 70 | #1,840 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 64 | #1,911 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 61 | #1,908 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,382 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 37 | #2,572 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,481 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,568 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,102 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,029 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,124 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,303 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,241 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,519 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,603 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,098 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,319 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,369 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,239 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,018 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,700 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,847 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,642 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,350 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,867 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,459 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,674 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,948 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,922 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,244 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,580 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,041 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,474 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,503 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,651 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,898 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,444 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,101 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,341 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,411 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,679 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,310 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,960 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,155 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,890 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,092 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,389 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,843 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,247 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,065 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,519 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,205 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,517 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,247 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,017 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,788 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,070 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,890 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,279 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,868 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dariel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,455 Americans recorded as Dariel, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 1,043 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dariel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dariel, and how old are they?
9,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 9,455 Americans ever recorded as Dariel. The median Dariel alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 5,030 people named Dariel (447 women and girls, 4,583 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,784 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 124 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 83 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 464 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,820 |
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 Dariel born?
The states with the most babies named Dariel are California, Texas and New York, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 211 | #186 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 209 | #177 | 1.6× |
| New York | 57 | #319 | 1.6× |
| Arizona | 57 | #156 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 46 | #425 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 35 | #264 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 33 | #350 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 32 | #371 | 0.5× |
| Colorado | 28 | #231 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 27 | #404 | 0.5× |
Where Dariel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dariel is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1922 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Dariel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 370,680 babies since 1880, Dariel is the fifth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,048 of their 1,483 babies (71%), the 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 Dariel
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 Dariel and names like it
- Compare Dariel and DarrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDariel peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dariel since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Dariel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dariel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.