Darrah
Darrah was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 820 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darrah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darrah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,688, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 2004, the peak
Darrah peaked in 2004, when 42 girls were given it, #3,506 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #15,688 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,987 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,037 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,775 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,200 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,450 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,887 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,490 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,146 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,887 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #14,276 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,231 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,864 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,506 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,870 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,378 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,627 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,003 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,253 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,828 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,948 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,518 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,240 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,881 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,470 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,095 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,723 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,728 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,910 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,918 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,664 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,472 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,163 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,343 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,514 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,275 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,449 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,027 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,836 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,303 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,645 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,162 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,624 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,541 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,628 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,485 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,702 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,565 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,970 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,822 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,977 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,458 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,531 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,541 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,334 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,763 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,733 | 2.7 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,762 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darrah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darrah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darrah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darrah, and how old are they?
An estimated 786 Americans named Darrah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 25 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 880 people named Darrah (813 women and girls, 67 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 792 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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).
How common is the spelling Darrah?
Darrah is a less common spelling of Dara: SSA has recorded 820 Darrah and 14,547 Dara since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,348 babies since 1880, Darrah is the seventh most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 549 babies recorded by SSA was a Darrah (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 Darrah
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 Darrah and names like it
- Compare Darrah and DaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDarrah peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darrah since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Darrah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Darrah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.