Meaning not yet researched.
Darell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 87 in 2025. Its best rank was #813 in 1948.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #813 in 1948; #1,828 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,828 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1948, at #813.
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Darell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 87 boys in 2025. Peak: #813 in 1948 · most boys in one year: 98 (1990).
In 2025, 87 US boys were named Darell, making it the 1,828th most common boys’ name of the year, up 132 places from #1,960 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 80 boys named Darell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #813, reached in 1948. The most boys given the name in a single year was 98, in 1990. For comparison, it was #3,710 in 2015 and #919 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darell in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 7 babies. In all, 5,430 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 713 babies named Darell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 654 US boys were named Darell; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 87. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,633 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Darell ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #847 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Darrell (160,952 babies since 1880), Darryl (93,419 babies since 1880), Daryl (67,477 babies since 1880) and Darrel (29,892 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Darell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 7 | #847 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #879 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,072 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,334 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,359 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,821 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,255 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 87 | #1,828 |
| 2024 | — | — | 80 | #1,960 |
| 2023 | — | — | 64 | #2,229 |
| 2022 | — | — | 64 | #2,247 |
| 2021 | — | — | 60 | #2,306 |
| 2020 | — | — | 78 | #1,898 |
| 2019 | — | — | 68 | #2,114 |
| 2018 | — | — | 80 | #1,875 |
| 2017 | — | — | 44 | #2,767 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,706 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,710 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,101 |
| 2013 | — | — | 31 | #3,427 |
| 2012 | — | — | 38 | #3,013 |
| 2011 | — | — | 45 | #2,672 |
| 2010 | — | — | 44 | #2,744 |
| 2009 | — | — | 44 | #2,764 |
| 2008 | — | — | 53 | #2,411 |
| 2007 | — | — | 47 | #2,616 |
| 2006 | — | — | 47 | #2,549 |
| 2005 | — | — | 47 | #2,438 |
| 2004 | — | — | 54 | #2,168 |
| 2003 | — | — | 34 | #2,864 |
| 2002 | — | — | 33 | #2,828 |
| 2001 | — | — | 32 | #2,876 |
| 2000 | — | — | 40 | #2,390 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,359 |
| 1998 | — | — | 54 | #1,836 |
| 1997 | — | — | 45 | #2,000 |
| 1996 | — | — | 59 | #1,641 |
| 1995 | — | — | 44 | #1,923 |
| 1994 | — | — | 68 | #1,423 |
| 1993 | — | — | 70 | #1,382 |
| 1992 | — | — | 80 | #1,267 |
| 1991 | — | — | 70 | #1,353 |
| 1990 | — | — | 98 | #1,075 |
| 1989 | — | — | 69 | #1,320 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,245 | 98 | #981 |
| 1987 | — | — | 77 | #1,097 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,351 | 95 | #939 |
| 1985 | — | — | 88 | #970 |
| 1984 | — | — | 65 | #1,124 |
| 1983 | — | — | 50 | #1,316 |
| 1982 | — | — | 55 | #1,257 |
| 1981 | — | — | 54 | #1,249 |
| 1980 | — | — | 52 | #1,296 |
| 1979 | — | — | 55 | #1,245 |
| 1978 | — | — | 52 | #1,244 |
| 1977 | — | — | 51 | #1,246 |
| 1976 | — | — | 59 | #1,102 |
| 1975 | — | — | 47 | #1,242 |
| 1974 | — | — | 48 | #1,201 |
| 1973 | — | — | 46 | #1,224 |
| 1972 | — | — | 57 | #1,072 |
| 1971 | — | — | 66 | #1,000 |
| 1970 | — | — | 56 | #1,093 |
| 1969 | — | — | 74 | #887 |
| 1968 | — | — | 70 | #866 |
| 1967 | — | — | 66 | #887 |
| 1966 | — | — | 71 | #862 |
| 1965 | — | — | 61 | #944 |
| 1964 | — | — | 65 | #946 |
| 1963 | — | — | 75 | #871 |
| 1962 | — | — | 57 | #1,017 |
| 1961 | — | — | 73 | #899 |
| 1960 | — | — | 59 | #999 |
| 1959 | — | — | 81 | #838 |
| 1958 | — | — | 81 | #838 |
| 1957 | — | — | 78 | #851 |
| 1956 | — | — | 55 | #1,011 |
| 1955 | — | — | 60 | #974 |
| 1954 | — | — | 65 | #921 |
| 1953 | — | — | 64 | #898 |
| 1952 | — | — | 56 | #954 |
| 1951 | — | — | 66 | #858 |
| 1950 | — | — | 56 | #919 |
| 1949 | — | — | 51 | #973 |
| 1948 | — | — | 70 | #813 |
| 1947 | — | — | 67 | #845 |
| 1946 | — | — | 38 | #1,132 |
| 1945 | — | — | 38 | #1,043 |
| 1944 | — | — | 42 | #1,006 |
| 1943 | — | — | 43 | #1,023 |
| 1942 | — | — | 61 | #835 |
| 1941 | — | — | 42 | #990 |
| 1940 | — | — | 36 | #1,094 |
| 1939 | — | — | 27 | #1,277 |
| 1938 | — | — | 29 | #1,225 |
| 1937 | — | — | 29 | #1,239 |
| 1936 | — | — | 34 | #1,122 |
| 1935 | — | — | 20 | #1,552 |
| 1934 | — | — | 31 | #1,194 |
| 1933 | — | — | 25 | #1,337 |
| 1932 | — | — | 28 | #1,294 |
| 1931 | — | — | 19 | #1,652 |
| 1930 | — | — | 13 | #2,205 |
| 1929 | — | — | 24 | #1,489 |
| 1928 | — | — | 24 | #1,533 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #2,958 |
| 1926 | — | — | 16 | #2,001 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #2,978 |
| 1924 | — | — | 9 | #3,077 |
| 1923 | — | — | 11 | #2,658 |
| 1922 | — | — | 14 | #2,266 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,273 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,640 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,298 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,323 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,298 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,591 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #3,956 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,715 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).