Darnell

At the 2020 census, 16,514 Americans bore the surname Darnell — 2,135th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,100.

By the numbers

People: 16,514
Rank: 2,135th
How common: 1 in 18,100
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

English surname, from the noun darnel (“type of ryegrass”). Also a variant of Darnall.

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Darnell described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.2%
Black, not Hispanic 6.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Darnell

Linda Darnell (1923–1965)American actress
Eric Darnell (born 1961)American animator, director, screenwriter, songwriter, and occasional voice actor

People named Darnell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Darnell

Also a first name

Darnell has been given to 31,018 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 1984. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.