Darrel
Where Darrel comes from
Darrel hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
Along the way
- 1900First appearance#1,050 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1939Peak, #242475 babies named Darrel — more than any year before or since.
- 1975The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #547.
- 1984Darrel Mitchell bornAmerican basketball player
- 1984Darrel Brown bornTrinidadian athletics competitor
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
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.