girls:
63 births since 1921
#5653 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 1911
#2927 (36th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1911
#5878 (24th percentile)
The name Darl is the #5,878 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,882 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 24.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,927 (36.1% percentile) for all time with 1,819 births since 1911. For girls, it ranks #5,653 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 63 births since 1921.
Darl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1921 for girls). Birth data for Darl is available in 78 out of the 89 years between 1911 and 1999 (78 years for boys and 10 years for girls). 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.
The name Darl has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Darl reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 7.7% percentile (ranked #480) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 42 births per million (ranked 7.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1999.
For girls, Darl reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #572) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1959.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darl".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Darl is pronounced as dahrl, which has 1 syllables.
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