Darrell
The boy's name Darrell has been in the national records since 1886, with 160,952 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,688th. About 113,000 Darrells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Darrell boys named Darrell
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 160,952
- Estimated living today
- 113,000
- Median age today
- 59
- Peak year
- 1958
- Best rank
- 90th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,688th
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 1,186 / 159,766
How old the living Darrells are
born that year still alive today
Of the 160,952 babies given the name since 1886, about 113,000 are alive — 70 in every hundred. Roughly 3,900 of them are children and 39,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 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
Origin a surname
Derived from d'Airel, name of a Norman family that came from a place called Airelle in Calvados.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Darrells
- Dimebag Darrell (1966–2004)American guitarist
- Darrell Issa (born 1953)American politician, inventor and entrepreneur
- Darrell Hammond (born 1955)American actor and comedian
- Darrell Pace (born 1956)American archer
- Darrell Arthur (born 1988)American basketball player
- Darrell Armstrong (born 1968)American basketball player
- Darrell Walker (born 1961)American basketball player and coach
- Darrell Griffith (born 1958)American basketball player
People named Darrell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Darrell is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Darrell is most concentrated in South Dakota (2.4×), West Virginia (2.4×), Kentucky (2.2×), Oklahoma (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1958
The most popular boys’ names the year Darrell peaked:
Darrell elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Darrell | 269 | 573rd |
| Ireland boys | Darrell | 159 | 193rd |
| Scotland boys | Darrell | 144 | 191st |
| France boys | Darrell | 135 | 3,187th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Darrell | 9 | 221st |
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.
Darrell 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 | Darrell | — | 11 |
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.
Related names
Darrell against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.