Meaning not yet researched.
Dariel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,043 in 2025. Its best rank was #327 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.5% of babies named Dariel in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#327 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Dariel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,043 boys in 2025. Peak: #327 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,043 (2025).
In 2025, 1,043 US boys were named Dariel, making it the 327th most common boys’ name of the year, up 20 places from #347 in 2024. That is 63 more than the 980 boys named Dariel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #327, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,043. For comparison, it was #865 in 2015 and #3,093 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dariel in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 5 babies. In all, 9,455 US babies have been given the name, 5.2% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,598 babies named Dariel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,077 US boys were named Dariel; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,043. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,638 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dariel ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #129 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.
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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 Dariel 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 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 15 | #129 | — |
| Arizona | 57 | #156 | #495 |
| Texas | 209 | #177 | #612 |
| California | 211 | #186 | #826 |
| Colorado | 28 | #231 | #562 |
| Nevada | 13 | #234 | — |
| Kansas | 15 | #250 | — |
| New Jersey | 35 | #264 | #402 |
| Maryland | 20 | #275 | — |
| New York | 57 | #319 | #536 |
| Washington | 23 | #327 | — |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #337 | #330 |
| North Carolina | 33 | #350 | #1,018 |
| Virginia | 22 | #369 | #749 |
| Georgia | 32 | #371 | — |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #377 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #386 | — |
| Nebraska | 6 | #390 | — |
| Illinois | 27 | #404 | — |
| Iowa | 8 | #410 | — |
| Oregon | 9 | #412 | — |
| Florida | 46 | #425 | #678 |
| Alabama | 12 | #429 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | #445 | #867 |
| Utah | 9 | #487 | — |
| Missouri | 12 | #492 | — |
| Arkansas | 6 | #504 | — |
| Tennessee | 14 | #529 | — |
| Minnesota | 9 | #556 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #622 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #707 | — |
| Ohio | 12 | #723 | — |
| Indiana | 8 | #724 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,469 | 1,043 | #327 |
| 2024 | — | — | 980 | #347 |
| 2023 | — | — | 878 | #369 |
| 2022 | — | — | 709 | #439 |
| 2021 | — | — | 529 | #550 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,690 | 449 | #610 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,623 | 408 | #653 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,742 | 401 | #644 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,147 | 360 | #690 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,050 | 320 | #761 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,117 | 261 | #865 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,039 | 266 | #845 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,278 | 191 | #1,022 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,499 | 212 | #951 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,450 | 190 | #1,013 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,494 | 177 | #1,086 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,700 | 179 | #1,055 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,832 | 143 | #1,225 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,041 | 99 | #1,581 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,786 | 92 | #1,586 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,944 | 70 | #1,844 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,488 | 64 | #1,915 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,651 | 61 | #1,911 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,529 | 43 | #2,386 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,379 | 37 | #2,577 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,706 | 38 | #2,486 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,721 | 34 | #2,572 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,633 | 44 | #2,105 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,567 | 44 | #2,032 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,622 | 23 | #3,129 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,124 | 34 | #2,308 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,769 | 21 | #3,247 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,734 | 29 | #2,525 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,895 | 27 | #2,609 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,529 | 35 | #2,104 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,977 | 30 | #2,324 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,939 | 28 | #2,375 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,246 | 16 | #3,244 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,024 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,826 | 19 | #2,703 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #3,851 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,645 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,454 | 21 | #2,351 |
| 1982 | — | — | 16 | #2,868 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,461 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,676 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,557 | 7 | #4,950 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #3,924 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,246 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,385 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,064 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,582 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,042 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,475 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,504 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,652 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,899 |
| 1963 | — | — | 12 | #2,445 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,102 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,759 | 13 | #2,342 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,412 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,089 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,280 | 10 | #2,680 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,311 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,833 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,844 | 8 | #2,961 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,157 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,959 | 8 | #2,891 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,031 | 7 | #3,093 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,405 | 6 | #3,392 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,408 | 6 | #3,391 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,845 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,103 | 6 | #3,248 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,690 | 6 | #3,066 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,057 | 9 | #2,519 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,205 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,517 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,248 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #3,017 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,789 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,838 | 7 | #3,071 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,549 | — | — |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,892 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,701 | — | — |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,281 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,407 | 6 | #3,870 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,963 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,137 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,503 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,182 | — | — |
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).