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Darrol

The boy's name Darrol has been in the national records since 1918, with 654 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2005. About 360 Darrols are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Darrol

By the numbers

Total US births
654
Estimated living today
360
Median age today
66
Peak year
1947
Best rank
1,482nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1918

How old the living Darrols are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 654 babies given the name since 1918, about 360 are alive — 55 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 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 Darrol is most common

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

Names of 1947

The most popular boys’ names the year Darrol peaked:

All the names of 1947

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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.