girls:
5 births since 1988
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1915
#2743 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1915
#5676 (27th percentile)
The name Darel is the #5,676 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,107 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 26.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,743 (40.2% percentile) for all time with 2,102 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1988.
Darel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1988 for girls).
The name Darel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Darel reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #491) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 33 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Darel ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 14.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darel reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #808) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darel".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Darel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.0% confident that Darel is pronounced as DEH-ruhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-ruhl, at 15.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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