Darrelle
Darrelle was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 313 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 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 Darrelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darrelle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,903, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1989, the peak
Darrelle peaked in 1989, when 24 babies were given it (18 boys, #3,223 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | under 5 | 6 | #10,903 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 5 | #12,617 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #12,559 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #11,101 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 10 | #7,616 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 13 | #6,420 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 7 | #10,097 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 7 | #8,860 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 5 | #11,042 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #8,353 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 7 | #10,840 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #8,011 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,950 | 5 | #9,098 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,137 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,754 | 11 | #4,940 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 9 | #5,595 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 12 | #4,454 | |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,169 | 18 | #3,223 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 9 | #4,863 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,139 | 12 | #3,771 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,826 | 9 | #4,545 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,041 | 8 | #4,792 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 6 | #5,499 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,101 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,039 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,218 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 7 | #4,273 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #5,067 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #3,928 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 8 | #3,372 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,006 | 6 | #3,638 |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,610 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 7 | #3,306 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 11 | #2,568 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,115 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 7 | #3,311 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Darrelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 313 Americans recorded as Darrelle, 20% are girls and 80% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Darrelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darrelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 292 Americans named Darrelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 30 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 373 people named Darrelle (132 women and girls, 241 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 293 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,039 babies since 1880, Darrelle is the second most given (15% 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 Darrelle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jory | 3,943 |
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 Darrelle and names like it
- Compare Darrelle and DarryleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDarrelle peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Darrelle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Darrelle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.