first name
DARREL
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 18,962 people named Darrel, 74.5% reported their origin as White, 16% as Black and 3% as two or more races. 99.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Darrel peaked in 1960, when 664 babies got the name.
At least 29,892 babies have been given the name since 1900. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Darrel by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #581. The largest share of babies named Darrel, 38.8%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Darrel is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Darrel has been most common in South Dakota (5.7×), North Dakota (4.6×), and Kansas (4.4×), and least common in Maryland (0.17×).
25,303 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Darrel, most common first.
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