Darl
Darl was last recorded in 1999, when 5 babies were given it; 1,882 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,241, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1933, the peak
Darl peaked in 1933, when 47 babies were given it (41 boys, #1,000 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | #10,241 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,964 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,674 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,459 | 2.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,749 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,038 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,300 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,651 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,216 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,249 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | #5,999 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,693 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,776 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,931 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,695 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,254 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,453 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,222 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,317 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,921 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,771 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 16 | #1,984 | 9.2 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,153 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 22 | #1,677 | 11.8 |
| 1964 | 30 | #1,441 | 15.1 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,706 | 10.8 |
| 1962 | 29 | #1,458 | 14.0 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,325 | 16.9 |
| 1960 | 31 | #1,438 | 14.5 |
| 1959 | 27 | #1,524 | 12.6 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,238 | 18.4 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,588 | 11.6 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,340 | 15.6 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,377 | 15.0 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,246 | 17.7 |
| 1953 | 25 | #1,523 | 12.7 |
| 1952 | 41 | #1,154 | 21.1 |
| 1951 | 42 | #1,112 | 22.3 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,295 | 17.3 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,302 | 17.5 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,496 | 13.7 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,338 | 16.4 |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,218 | 20.3 |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,165 | 23.8 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,156 | 24.2 |
| 1943 | 33 | #1,189 | 23.1 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,195 | 24.6 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,258 | 22.8 |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,071 | 31.9 |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,105 | 30.7 |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,030 | 35.2 |
| 1937 | 35 | #1,099 | 32.8 |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,186 | 29.9 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,171 | 30.7 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,152 | 32.0 |
| 1933 | 41 | #1,000 | 41.4 |
| 1932 | 40 | #1,061 | 38.3 |
| 1931 | 45 | #984 | 43.3 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,308 | 27.3 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,318 | 27.0 |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,021 | 41.5 |
| 1927 | 43 | #1,086 | 38.2 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,068 | 38.7 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,366 | 26.0 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,737 | 18.5 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,435 | 24.6 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,515 | 23.0 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,182 | 33.6 |
| 1920 | 17 | #1,976 | 16.0 |
| 1919 | 16 | #1,992 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,726 | 19.7 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,710 | 20.5 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,068 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,340 | 13.0 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,891 | 18.3 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,132 | 15.6 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,631 | 11.6 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,798 | 22.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,882 Americans recorded as Darl, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Darl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darl, and how old are they?
An estimated 744 Americans named Darl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 60 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 964 people named Darl (91 women and girls, 873 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 918 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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 Darl born?
The states with the most babies named Darl are Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 247 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 145 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Indiana | 51 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| West Virginia | 20 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Iowa | 15 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Darl is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darl is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1911 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 Darl 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 211,442 babies since 1880, Darl is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,386 babies recorded by SSA was a Darl (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Darl
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 Darl and names like it
- Compare Darl and DarrylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDarl peaked in 1933.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darl since 1910.
- The top names of 1933The year the most babies were named Darl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Darl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.