Darrol
Darrol was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 654 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darrol by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darrol?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,828, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1947, the peak
Darrol peaked in 1947, when 25 boys were given it, #1,492 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #11,828 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,312 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,142 | 2.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,948 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,640 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,572 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,452 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,274 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,062 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,648 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 8 | #3,904 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,698 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,188 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,347 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,046 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,261 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,504 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,909 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,870 | 9.7 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,098 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,331 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,410 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,080 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,148 | 7.0 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,924 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,196 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,589 | 11.6 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,184 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,916 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 22 | #1,636 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,115 | 7.1 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,023 | 7.7 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,275 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,818 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,837 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,484 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,492 | 13.7 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,748 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,802 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 18 | #1,642 | 13.2 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,095 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,642 | 13.8 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,109 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,104 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,889 | 6.3 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,843 | 13.5 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,527 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,484 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,575 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,034 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,249 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,897 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,163 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,099 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,043 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,280 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,218 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,340 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,479 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 6 | #3,982 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,369 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,496 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,448 | 4.7 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,824 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darrol a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darrol has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darrol: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darrol, and how old are they?
An estimated 350 Americans named Darrol and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 58 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 431 people named Darrol (6 women and girls, 425 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 410 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 369,452 babies since 1880, Darrol is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,483 babies recorded by SSA was a Darrol (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 Darrol
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 Darrol and names like it
- Compare Darrol and DarrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDarrol peaked in 1947.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darrol since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Darrol.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Darrol alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.