Darold
Darold was last recorded in 2021, when 7 babies were given it; 4,195 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,930 Americans named Darold and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 54 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darold by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darold?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,951, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
99 babies in 1932, the peak
Darold peaked in 1932, when 99 boys were given it, #592 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | #9,951 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,364 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,232 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,012 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,826 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,801 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,519 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,339 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,038 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,573 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 12 | #4,933 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,089 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,344 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,387 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,818 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,129 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,485 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,486 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,382 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,225 | 8.0 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,912 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,735 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 10 | #3,986 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,222 | 12.8 |
| 1982 | 15 | #2,996 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,923 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,552 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,039 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,693 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,385 | 11.6 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,259 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 30 | #1,666 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 30 | #1,627 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 30 | #1,591 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 50 | #1,153 | 30.8 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,159 | 28.3 |
| 1970 | 42 | #1,279 | 22.6 |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,100 | 28.0 |
| 1968 | 56 | #988 | 32.2 |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,022 | 29.2 |
| 1966 | 54 | #994 | 30.3 |
| 1965 | 57 | #977 | 30.6 |
| 1964 | 61 | #974 | 30.6 |
| 1963 | 61 | #962 | 30.0 |
| 1962 | 63 | #956 | 30.5 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,082 | 24.5 |
| 1960 | 79 | #852 | 37.0 |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,020 | 26.7 |
| 1958 | 67 | #929 | 31.6 |
| 1957 | 76 | #864 | 35.2 |
| 1956 | 71 | #890 | 33.6 |
| 1955 | 70 | #886 | 34.0 |
| 1954 | 65 | #921 | 31.9 |
| 1953 | 74 | #834 | 37.5 |
| 1952 | 65 | #871 | 33.4 |
| 1951 | 70 | #838 | 37.2 |
| 1950 | 73 | #797 | 40.8 |
| 1949 | 63 | #867 | 35.5 |
| 1948 | 66 | #839 | 37.6 |
| 1947 | 76 | #788 | 41.5 |
| 1946 | 79 | #740 | 48.6 |
| 1945 | 63 | #777 | 46.8 |
| 1944 | 69 | #747 | 50.6 |
| 1943 | 74 | #754 | 51.8 |
| 1942 | 97 | #646 | 70.2 |
| 1941 | 74 | #720 | 60.2 |
| 1940 | 77 | #689 | 66.4 |
| 1939 | 90 | #611 | 81.3 |
| 1938 | 86 | #645 | 77.5 |
| 1937 | 71 | #715 | 66.6 |
| 1936 | 88 | #623 | 84.8 |
| 1935 | 96 | #591 | 92.2 |
| 1934 | 83 | #666 | 80.4 |
| 1933 | 76 | #679 | 76.6 |
| 1932 | 99 | #592 | 94.8 |
| 1931 | 76 | #690 | 73.1 |
| 1930 | 61 | #836 | 55.6 |
| 1929 | 82 | #680 | 76.2 |
| 1928 | 89 | #664 | 80.4 |
| 1927 | 72 | #774 | 63.9 |
| 1926 | 56 | #896 | 50.4 |
| 1925 | 48 | #987 | 43.0 |
| 1924 | 60 | #900 | 53.0 |
| 1923 | 38 | #1,160 | 34.7 |
| 1922 | 45 | #1,047 | 41.4 |
| 1921 | 45 | #1,049 | 40.9 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,333 | 28.2 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,361 | 28.6 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,455 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,405 | 27.0 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,346 | 29.2 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,672 | 21.2 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,353 | 30.5 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,704 | 21.5 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,343 | 14.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darold a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darold has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darold: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darold, and how old are they?
1,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 46% of the 4,195 Americans ever recorded as Darold. The median Darold alive today is 65 years old; half are between 54 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 2,226 people named Darold (6 women and girls, 2,220 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,303 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 273 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 843 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 511 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 235 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 59 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7 |
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 Darold born?
The states with the most babies named Darold are Minnesota, Iowa and California, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Iowa are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 249 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Iowa | 200 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| California | 161 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Nebraska | 160 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Wisconsin | 119 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 107 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Kansas | 77 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Dakota | 65 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| South Dakota | 52 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Illinois | 49 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Darold is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darold is most over-represented in Nebraska: since 1912 it was given 3.8 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 Darold 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,096 babies since 1880, Darold is the most given (82% 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 Darold
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 Darold and names like it
- Compare Darold and DarroldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDarold peaked in 1932.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darold since 1910.
- The top names of 1932The year the most babies were named Darold.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Darold alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.