boys:
85 births since 2015
#4501 (2nd percentile)
overall:
85 births since 2015
#7654 (1st percentile)
The name Darkiel is the #7,654 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 85 recorded births since 2015. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,501 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 85 births since 2015.
Darkiel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2015 (first recorded for boys in 2015).
For boys, Darkiel reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #912) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Darkiel ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 79.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darkiel".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Darkiel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 21.6% confident that Darkiel is pronounced as DAHR-kee-ehl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAHR-kee-uhl, at 21.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like D AA1 R K IY0 EH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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