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Darl

Boys' name · Mid-century

Living in the US
~810 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025
0 1,882 since 1880
Typical age
68 years, median

Darl popularity over time

Darl rank by birth year, 1911–1999Darl ranked #1,740 in 1911 and #9,912 in 1999. Its best rank in the period was #983, in 1931.#1,000#10,000#9,912best #983 in 19311920194019601980
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1911–1999. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1933: 47 births recorded as Darl. The name does not appear in the data until 1911. No births were recorded under this name in 2025; the most recent year with data is 1999.

Babies named Darl per yearPeaks at 47 births in 1933.47 in 193301920194019601980
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Darl?

Roughly 810 Darls are alive in the US right now. That is out of 1,882 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Darl?

Half of living Darls are older than 68, half younger. The 1950s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Darl a mid-century name.

Your Darl

Ages of living people named DarlHalf of living Darls are older than 68 and half younger.median 68020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Notable people named Darl

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Darl Douglas Surinamese soccer player and musician 1979 11
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Darl

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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