Darrel

Where Darrel comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Darrel.

Darrel through the years
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,050 among boys with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Peak, #242
    475 babies named Darrel, its best rank.
  3. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #547.
  4. 1984
    Darrel Brown born
    Trinidadian athletics competitor
  5. 1984
    Darrel Mitchell born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Darrel Brown · Trinidadian athletics competitor, born 1984
  • Darrel Mitchell · American basketball player, born 1984
  • Darrel Frost · American herpetologist, born 1951
  • Darrel Ray · American writer and atheist activist, born 1950
  • Darrel Akerfelds · American baseball player, 1962–2012

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.