Darnelle — boys' name

What the Data Says About Darnelle

The Social Security Administration has registered 362 babies named Darnelle between 1963 and 2022, spanning 60 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Darnelle currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Darnelle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 249 additional births since 1943.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Darnelle performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 142 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Darnelle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Darnelle in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Darnelle in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 362 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.