Darriel
Darriel was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 754 Americans have been recorded with it between 1931 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darriel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darriel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,555, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1993, the peak
Darriel peaked in 1993, when 22 babies were given it (7 boys, #6,965 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #12,555 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 10 | #7,632 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 5 | #12,582 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 10 | #7,672 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #11,036 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,520 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,434 | 8 | #8,928 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,823 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,982 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,208 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #17,800 | 9 | #8,141 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,090 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,298 | 10 | #6,830 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,049 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,947 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,975 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,075 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,129 | 7 | #7,737 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #6,742 | |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,303 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,233 | 8 | #6,515 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,772 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,020 | 7 | #6,965 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,756 | 8 | #6,241 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,527 | 9 | #5,596 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 15 | #3,809 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,848 | 7 | #6,358 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 10 | #4,508 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 19 | #2,742 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 8 | #4,948 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #5,945 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 9 | #4,272 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,040 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 8 | #4,680 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 7 | #5,049 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,593 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 8 | #4,493 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 7 | #4,648 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 8 | #4,247 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 7 | #4,535 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 8 | #4,030 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 8 | #3,903 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,255 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,548 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 8 | #3,727 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 14 | #2,530 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 10 | #2,904 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 13 | #2,349 | |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,180 | 10 | #2,637 |
| 1966 | under 5 | 14 | #2,157 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 15 | #2,105 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 12 | #2,444 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 16 | #2,061 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 17 | #1,982 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 13 | #2,342 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 17 | #1,985 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 19 | #1,875 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 14 | #2,195 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 9 | #2,866 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 12 | #2,391 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 8 | #3,020 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 11 | #2,482 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 10 | #2,573 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 9 | #2,717 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 11 | #2,402 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 11 | #2,355 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 9 | #2,707 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 5 | #3,637 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,068 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,674 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 7 | #2,933 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 8 | #2,652 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 9 | #2,518 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 7 | #3,162 |
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 Darriel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 754 Americans recorded as Darriel, 20% are girls and 80% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Darriel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darriel, and how old are they?
An estimated 631 Americans named Darriel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 29 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 566 people named Darriel (177 women and girls, 389 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 650 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Darriel?
Darriel is a less common spelling of Dariel: SSA has recorded 754 Darriel and 9,455 Dariel since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 298,665 babies since 1880, Darriel is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,283 babies recorded by SSA was a Darriel (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 Darriel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1930-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Kerby | 1,006 |
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 Darriel and names like it
- Compare Darriel and DarielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDarriel peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darriel since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Darriel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Darriel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.