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Darold

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Darold has been given to 4,195 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1932, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Darold, 2021

1 in 484,000

Darold over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Darold: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Darold means

Darold is a given name.

The naming story behind Darold

Wikidata records Darold as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q5224169, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,195 boys were recorded with the name Darold between 1912 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1932; its best national rank was #591 in 1935.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Darold?

Darold had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 250,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,678 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Darold sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darold. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Darolds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Darold was born before 1947 — so the typical Darold is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
19.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,907
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1930s — 19.7% of all recorded uses (826).

Is Darold 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1932 (99)
Years since peak
93
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#591
1935

Spellings of Darold

Darold is not the most common spelling — Harold is, with 69.9% against Darold's 0.53%.

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 Darold is used

Across 1910–2025, Darold was most concentrated in Nebraska — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 62,965 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nebraska1 in 8,333
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 9,091
  3. 3Iowa1 in 11,111
  4. 4South Dakota1 in 11,111
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 12,500
  6. 6Kansas1 in 25,000
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 33,333
  8. 8Michigan1 in 50,000

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. Darold has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Darold around the world

Where Darold ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1946–1946
    #252
    in 1946

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Darold

People whose public names include Darold, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Darold by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#591
1935
Peak year
1932
99 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
4,195
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Darold

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DarvinDarellDarroldDarronDarionDarrisDarielDarrionDarrynDarrianDarienDarrienDarbyDarcyDarynDaronDarriusDarianDarelDarrickDarrowDarenDaryleDarek

Names with a curve like Darold

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Darold, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

FarrellLynwoodWaymonRayfordLupeWardellMeltonGlynnMaxieJereGearldWillam

Sibling names for Darold

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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