Darnell

girls:

2.4k births since 1917

#3542 (38th percentile)

boys:

28.5k births since 1912

#683 (85th percentile)

overall:

30.9k births since 1912

#1444 (81st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darnell".

1912 2023 19122023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,387
Peak Births
71
Peak Year
1950
First Recorded
1917
Peak Percentile
9.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#550
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
28,515
Peak Births
741
Peak Year
1984
First Recorded
1912
Peak Percentile
61.1%
Current Percentile
8.8%
Peak Rank
#268
Current Rank
#831
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Darnell

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Darnell. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 73.8% confident that Darnell is pronounced as dahr-NEHL. The next most likely pronunciation is DAHR-nehl, at 21.4% confidence.

dahr-NEHL (2 syllables)
Verified
73.8% confidence
D AA0 R N EH1 L
DAHR-nehl (2 syllables)
21.4% confidence
D AA1 R N EH0 L
DAHR-NEHL (2 syllables)
4.8% confidence
D AA1 R N EH1 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Darnell. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Darnell, please vote using the thumbs up button.

DAHR-nuhl (2 syllables)
1 name 1.1k births
D AA1 R N AH0 L

Names with this pronunciation:

DOR-nehl (2 syllables)
1 name 298 births
D AO1 R N EH0 L

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D AA0 R N EH1 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.