Meaning not yet researched.
Darrell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 97 in 2025. Its best rank was #86 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #86 in 1968; #1,691 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darrell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,691 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #86.
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Darrell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 97 boys in 2025. Peak: #86 in 1968 · most boys in one year: 4,771 (1958).
In 2025, 97 US boys were named Darrell, making it the 1,691st most common boys’ name of the year, down 230 places from #1,461 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 124 boys named Darrell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #86, reached in 1968. The most boys given the name in a single year was 4,771, in 1958. For comparison, it was #935 in 2015 and #116 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darrell in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 5 babies. In all, 160,952 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 38,283 babies named Darrell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,570 US boys were named Darrell; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 240. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,609 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Darrell ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #727 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Darryl (93,419 babies since 1880), Daryl (67,477 babies since 1880), Darrel (29,892 babies since 1880) and Dariel (9,455 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Darel, Daryll and Darielle are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Darel (2,173), Daryll (1,714), Darielle (987), Darriel (754), Darrol (654), Daryel (556), Darroll (396), Darral (385), Darrielle (379), Darrelle (313), Darelle (295), Darryel (248), and more.
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 Darrell 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 6 | #727 | #654 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #803 | #349 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #807 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #995 | #812 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,039 | #801 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,315 | #848 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,680 | #985 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,132 | #905 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 97 | #1,691 |
| 2024 | — | — | 124 | #1,461 |
| 2023 | — | — | 110 | #1,580 |
| 2022 | — | — | 127 | #1,433 |
| 2021 | — | — | 130 | #1,410 |
| 2020 | — | — | 147 | #1,255 |
| 2019 | — | — | 170 | #1,144 |
| 2018 | — | — | 189 | #1,067 |
| 2017 | — | — | 240 | #895 |
| 2016 | — | — | 236 | #911 |
| 2015 | — | — | 226 | #935 |
| 2014 | — | — | 259 | #856 |
| 2013 | — | — | 286 | #789 |
| 2012 | — | — | 288 | #786 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,440 | 338 | #690 |
| 2010 | — | — | 304 | #747 |
| 2009 | — | — | 317 | #736 |
| 2008 | — | — | 388 | #634 |
| 2007 | — | — | 416 | #605 |
| 2006 | — | — | 415 | #592 |
| 2005 | — | — | 405 | #575 |
| 2004 | — | — | 410 | #559 |
| 2003 | — | — | 400 | #561 |
| 2002 | — | — | 405 | #547 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,267 | 453 | #505 |
| 2000 | — | — | 499 | #470 |
| 1999 | — | — | 545 | #429 |
| 1998 | — | — | 533 | #432 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,278 | 556 | #415 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,044 | 609 | #383 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,949 | 628 | #378 |
| 1994 | — | — | 746 | #332 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,870 | 876 | #310 |
| 1992 | — | — | 915 | #294 |
| 1991 | — | — | 1,020 | #266 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,657 | 1,128 | #246 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,614 | 1,206 | #225 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,108 | 1,214 | #216 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,917 | 1,232 | #205 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,241 | 1,308 | #196 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,564 | 1,324 | #190 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,990 | 1,335 | #187 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,583 | 1,332 | #188 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,014 | 1,389 | #182 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,433 | 1,361 | #184 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,612 | 1,461 | #168 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,944 | 1,527 | #162 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,299 | 1,466 | #165 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,711 | 1,656 | #150 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,678 | 1,659 | #150 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,072 | 1,672 | #147 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,893 | 1,840 | #137 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,927 | 1,977 | #131 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,301 | 2,313 | #122 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,609 | 2,814 | #118 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,206 | 3,148 | #102 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,305 | 3,249 | #93 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,257 | 3,446 | #86 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,284 | 3,652 | #86 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,364 | 3,497 | #95 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,757 | 3,888 | #91 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,491 | 3,968 | #96 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,265 | 4,097 | #95 |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,084 | 3,877 | #102 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,626 | 4,203 | #101 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,014 | 4,148 | #104 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,776 | 4,647 | #90 |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,221 | 4,771 | #90 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,289 | 4,570 | #90 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,160 | 4,468 | #88 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,747 | 3,902 | #91 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,194 | 3,643 | #95 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,960 | 3,149 | #103 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,945 | 2,868 | #109 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,835 | 2,746 | #109 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,140 | 2,493 | #116 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,082 | 2,517 | #117 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,826 | 2,336 | #121 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,472 | 2,285 | #125 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,406 | 1,905 | #131 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,256 | 1,522 | #141 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,313 | 1,580 | #133 |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,092 | 1,529 | #140 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,697 | 1,591 | #135 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,286 | 1,530 | #130 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,049 | 1,430 | #131 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,224 | 1,340 | #130 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,980 | 1,356 | #128 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,934 | 1,260 | #130 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,911 | 1,208 | #133 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,610 | 1,153 | #136 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,527 | 1,129 | #140 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,173 | 1,026 | #148 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,529 | 992 | #154 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,813 | 834 | #167 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,141 | 828 | #173 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,463 | 698 | #194 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,992 | 647 | #210 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,938 | 603 | #223 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,995 | 578 | #231 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,138 | 523 | #248 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,092 | 509 | #255 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,504 | 462 | #262 |
| 1922 | — | — | 379 | #290 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,291 | 370 | #293 |
| 1920 | — | — | 359 | #298 |
| 1919 | — | — | 291 | #332 |
| 1918 | — | — | 250 | #373 |
| 1917 | — | — | 241 | #360 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,628 | 222 | #365 |
| 1915 | — | — | 231 | #352 |
| 1914 | — | — | 130 | #421 |
| 1913 | — | — | 116 | #397 |
| 1912 | — | — | 94 | #397 |
| 1911 | — | — | 38 | #471 |
| 1910 | — | — | 29 | #526 |
| 1909 | — | — | 15 | #726 |
| 1908 | — | — | 18 | #615 |
| 1907 | — | — | 23 | #488 |
| 1906 | — | — | 14 | #651 |
| 1905 | — | — | 11 | #753 |
| 1904 | — | — | 9 | #822 |
| 1903 | — | — | 8 | #858 |
| 1902 | — | — | 11 | #698 |
| 1901 | — | — | 7 | #875 |
| 1900 | — | — | 9 | #919 |
| 1899 | — | — | 8 | #798 |
| 1898 | — | — | 14 | #582 |
| 1897 | — | — | 10 | #690 |
| 1896 | — | — | 6 | #1,008 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,119 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,121 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,075 |
| 1891 | — | — | 6 | #869 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,038 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,001 |
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).