Darrek
Darrek was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 106 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darrek by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darrek?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,928, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1993, the peak
Darrek peaked in 1993, when 12 boys were given it, #4,767 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #10,928 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,352 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,633 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,149 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,097 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,767 | 6.1 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,461 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,557 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,255 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,294 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #7,182 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,800 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,386 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,776 | 5.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,508 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,345 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darrek a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darrek has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darrek: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darrek, and how old are they?
An estimated 100 Americans named Darrek and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 32 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 178 people named Darrek (1 woman or girl, 177 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 102 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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 Darrek?
Darrek is a less common spelling of Darek: SSA has recorded 106 Darrek and 1,561 Darek since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,847 babies since 1880, Darrek is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 48 babies recorded by SSA was a Darrek (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 Darrek
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 Darrek and names like it
- Compare Darrek and DarekBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDarrek peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Darrek.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Darrek alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.