girls:
1k births since 1951
#4690 (18th percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1951
#6713 (13th percentile)
The name Darah is the #6,713 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,026 recorded births since 1951. This represents the 13.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,690 (17.9% percentile) for all time with 1,026 births since 1951.
Darah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1951 (first recorded for girls in 1951). Birth data for Darah is available in 62 out of the 73 years between 1951 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Darah reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #778) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Darah ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 56.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darah".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Darah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.5% confident that Darah is pronounced as DAH-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-ruh, at 40.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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