girls:
35 births since 1956
#5681 (1st percentile)
boys:
243 births since 1987
#4343 (5th percentile)
overall:
278 births since 1956
#7461 (4th percentile)
The name Darragh is the #7,461 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 278 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 3.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,343 (5.2% percentile) for all time with 243 births since 1987. For girls, it ranks #5,681 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1956.
Darragh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for girls and 1987 for boys). Birth data for Darragh is available in 31 out of the 68 years between 1956 and 2023 (26 years for boys and 6 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 Darragh has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Darragh were boys. Interestingly, until around 1987, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1956 to 1986), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (94.9% boys from 1987 to 2023).
For boys, Darragh reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #919) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Darragh ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 76.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darragh reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #856) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darragh".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Darragh. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.5% confident that Darragh is pronounced as DAH-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-ruh, at 26.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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