girls:
64 births since 1967
#5652 (1st percentile)
boys:
249 births since 1957
#4337 (5th percentile)
overall:
313 births since 1957
#7426 (4th percentile)
The name Darrelle is the #7,426 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 313 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 4.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,337 (5.4% percentile) for all time with 249 births since 1957. For girls, it ranks #5,652 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 64 births since 1967.
Darrelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (1957 for boys and 1967 for girls). Birth data for Darrelle is available in 36 out of the 64 years between 1957 and 2020 (32 years for boys and 11 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 Darrelle has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2020, 100.0% of babies named Darrelle were boys.
For boys, Darrelle reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #740) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 9 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Darrelle reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darrelle".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Darrelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 21.3% confident that Darrelle is pronounced as der-EHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dah-REHL, at 19.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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