Meaning not yet researched.
Darrel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #243 in 1939.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #243 in 1939; #5,435 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darrel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,435 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1939, at #243.
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Darrel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #243 in 1939 · most boys in one year: 659 (1960).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Darrel, making it the 5,435th most common boys’ name of the year, down 153 places from #5,282 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 18 boys named Darrel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #243, reached in 1939. The most boys given the name in a single year was 659, in 1960. For comparison, it was #3,603 in 2015 and #295 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darrel in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 7 babies. In all, 29,892 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 6,074 babies named Darrel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 229 US boys were named Darrel; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Dariel (9,455 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 Darrel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 17 | #5,435 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,282 |
| 2023 | — | — | 18 | #5,295 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #4,888 |
| 2021 | — | — | 37 | #3,197 |
| 2020 | — | — | 21 | #4,571 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,818 |
| 2018 | — | — | 29 | #3,725 |
| 2017 | — | — | 19 | #4,978 |
| 2016 | — | — | 22 | #4,504 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,603 |
| 2014 | — | — | 48 | #2,549 |
| 2013 | — | — | 40 | #2,860 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,188 |
| 2011 | — | — | 43 | #2,763 |
| 2010 | — | — | 34 | #3,257 |
| 2009 | — | — | 42 | #2,857 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,638 |
| 2007 | — | — | 42 | #2,828 |
| 2006 | — | — | 57 | #2,228 |
| 2005 | — | — | 63 | #1,990 |
| 2004 | — | — | 42 | #2,577 |
| 2003 | — | — | 55 | #2,060 |
| 2002 | — | — | 49 | #2,163 |
| 2001 | — | — | 70 | #1,661 |
| 2000 | — | — | 71 | #1,643 |
| 1999 | — | — | 75 | #1,509 |
| 1998 | — | — | 75 | #1,481 |
| 1997 | — | — | 97 | #1,215 |
| 1996 | — | — | 86 | #1,279 |
| 1995 | — | — | 84 | #1,276 |
| 1994 | — | — | 94 | #1,181 |
| 1993 | — | — | 144 | #889 |
| 1992 | — | — | 130 | #937 |
| 1991 | — | — | 178 | #769 |
| 1990 | — | — | 173 | #774 |
| 1989 | — | — | 191 | #714 |
| 1988 | — | — | 185 | #690 |
| 1987 | — | — | 213 | #626 |
| 1986 | — | — | 179 | #670 |
| 1985 | — | — | 173 | #675 |
| 1984 | — | — | 175 | #653 |
| 1983 | — | — | 181 | #636 |
| 1982 | — | — | 174 | #661 |
| 1981 | — | — | 188 | #624 |
| 1980 | — | — | 203 | #616 |
| 1979 | — | — | 223 | #572 |
| 1978 | — | — | 205 | #587 |
| 1977 | — | — | 204 | #590 |
| 1976 | — | — | 209 | #556 |
| 1975 | — | — | 217 | #547 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,071 | 252 | #500 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,712 | 261 | #485 |
| 1972 | — | — | 343 | #428 |
| 1971 | — | — | 352 | #434 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,245 | 392 | #413 |
| 1969 | — | — | 401 | #396 |
| 1968 | — | — | 486 | #352 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,590 | 483 | #343 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,948 | 507 | #335 |
| 1965 | — | — | 499 | #339 |
| 1964 | — | — | 596 | #319 |
| 1963 | — | — | 585 | #326 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,766 | 637 | #308 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,410 | 646 | #305 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,559 | 659 | #302 |
| 1959 | — | — | 645 | #305 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,602 | 627 | #302 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,533 | 641 | #297 |
| 1956 | — | — | 629 | #294 |
| 1955 | — | — | 608 | #292 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,363 | 609 | #286 |
| 1953 | — | — | 562 | #297 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,035 | 581 | #291 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,590 | 603 | #275 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,853 | 530 | #295 |
| 1949 | — | — | 597 | #271 |
| 1948 | — | — | 564 | #283 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,862 | 651 | #263 |
| 1946 | — | — | 568 | #264 |
| 1945 | — | — | 431 | #288 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,708 | 469 | #274 |
| 1943 | — | — | 503 | #271 |
| 1942 | — | — | 526 | #251 |
| 1941 | — | — | 492 | #251 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,499 | 474 | #252 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,511 | 475 | #243 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,460 | 467 | #252 |
| 1937 | — | — | 375 | #280 |
| 1936 | — | — | 408 | #267 |
| 1935 | — | — | 414 | #266 |
| 1934 | — | — | 358 | #286 |
| 1933 | — | — | 330 | #292 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,551 | 338 | #302 |
| 1931 | — | — | 304 | #310 |
| 1930 | — | — | 265 | #346 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,178 | 249 | #358 |
| 1928 | — | — | 244 | #372 |
| 1927 | — | — | 219 | #407 |
| 1926 | — | — | 215 | #407 |
| 1925 | — | — | 182 | #446 |
| 1924 | — | — | 206 | #424 |
| 1923 | — | — | 145 | #509 |
| 1922 | — | — | 151 | #503 |
| 1921 | — | — | 144 | #515 |
| 1920 | — | — | 143 | #510 |
| 1919 | — | — | 108 | #577 |
| 1918 | — | — | 105 | #596 |
| 1917 | — | — | 85 | #645 |
| 1916 | — | — | 92 | #608 |
| 1915 | — | — | 86 | #624 |
| 1914 | — | — | 42 | #825 |
| 1913 | — | — | 32 | #859 |
| 1912 | — | — | 42 | #650 |
| 1911 | — | — | 12 | #997 |
| 1910 | — | — | 8 | #1,227 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,504 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,037 |
| 1907 | — | — | 13 | #748 |
| 1906 | — | — | 8 | #945 |
| 1905 | — | — | 11 | #752 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,038 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,089 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,070 |
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).