Darl
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Darl has been given to 1,882 babies in the U.S. since 1911. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1928, with 46 recorded.
Babies named Darl, 1999
1 in 738,000
Darl over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Darl?
Darl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1999
- 1 in 738,000
- 5 of 3,692,373 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1999
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 511,873 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Darl sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Darls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Darl was born before 1943 — so the typical Darl is around 82 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 19.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 717
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (360).
Is Darl rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1928 (46)
- Years since peak
- 97
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.0% average annual change
Spellings of Darl
Darl is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 23.0% against Darl's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Darl is used
Across 1910–2025, Darl was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 67,486 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
- 2Ohio1 in 50,000
- 3Iowa1 in 100,000
- 4Indiana1 in 100,000
- 5West Virginia1 in 100,000
- 6Maryland1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Darl has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Darl by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Darl
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Darl
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.