Darrold
Darrold was last recorded in 1988, when 6 babies were given it; 497 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darrold by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darrold?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,589, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1933, the peak
Darrold peaked in 1933, when 19 boys were given it, #1,603 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 6 | #6,589 | 3.1 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,443 | 2.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,416 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,154 | 4.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,728 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,859 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,435 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,243 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,035 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 17 | #1,987 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 10 | #2,712 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,105 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,015 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,914 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 14 | #2,219 | 6.6 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,682 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,073 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,833 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,068 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,977 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,422 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,852 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,276 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,470 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,078 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,356 | 6.3 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,301 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,803 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,830 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,200 | 8.4 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,758 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,232 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,517 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 13 | #1,979 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,701 | 15.3 |
| 1937 | 7 | #2,969 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,208 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,281 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,619 | 18.4 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,603 | 19.2 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,218 | 11.5 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,123 | 12.5 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,638 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,809 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,134 | 7.2 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,763 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,490 | 4.4 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,114 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darrold a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darrold has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darrold: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darrold, and how old are they?
An estimated 232 Americans named Darrold and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 62 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 334 people named Darrold (2 women and girls, 332 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 286 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 Darrold?
Darrold is a less common spelling of Darold: SSA has recorded 497 Darrold and 4,195 Darold since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,096 babies since 1880, Darrold is the second most given (9.8% 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 Darrold
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 Darrold and names like it
- Compare Darrold and DaroldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDarrold peaked in 1933.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darrold since 1910.
- The top names of 1933The year the most babies were named Darrold.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Darrold alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.