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Dariel

The boy's name Dariel has been in the national records since 1922, with 9,455 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 326th. About 9,200 Dariels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Dariel boys named Dariel

By the numbers

Total US births
9,455
Estimated living today
9,200
Median age today
6
Peak year
2025
Best rank
326th
Rank in 2025
326th
First recorded
1922
Girls / boys
493 / 8,962

How old the living Dariels are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 9,455 babies given the name since 1922, about 9,200 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 7,800 of them are children and 120 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

20th-century variant of Darrell.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Dariel is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Dariel is most concentrated in Arizona (4.4×), Texas (2.7×), New Mexico (2.7×), Florida (2.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Dariel peaked:

All the names of 2025

Dariel elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Dariel 42 1,675th
Switzerland boys Dariel 28 1,079th
France boys Dariel 20 3,834th
Scotland boys Dariel 3 727th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Dariel: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Dariel 18 0.001% 957th
French boys Switzerland Dariel 9 0.002% 607th
Italian boys Switzerland Dariel 1 0.002% 186th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Dariel among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Dariel 5 7

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Dariel lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 628 men called Dariel were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Palmas, Las Dariel 114 0.196 500
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Dariel 58 0.109 841
Palencia Dariel 5 0.063 857
Lugo Dariel 9 0.057 881
Tarragona Dariel 16 0.037 1,528
Madrid Dariel 97 0.028 1,721

Listed in 29 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 23 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.