Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from Norman French d’Airelle, originally identifying someone from Airelle in France, Darrell became a moderately popular given name from the 1930s through the 1970s but fell out of the American top 1000 rankings in 2018.
20062006: 415 births, rank #591
2007: 416 births, rank #604
2008: 388 births, rank #634
2009: 317 births, rank #736
2010: 304 births, rank #746
20112011: 338 births, rank #690
2012: 288 births, rank #786
2013: 286 births, rank #787
2014: 259 births, rank #856
2015: 226 births, rank #934
20162016: 236 births, rank #911
2017: 240 births, rank #895
2018: 189 births, rank #1,067
2019: 170 births, rank #1,144
2020: 147 births, rank #1,255
20212021: 130 births, rank #1,407
2022: 127 births, rank #1,433
2023: 110 births, rank #1,576
2024: 124 births, rank #1,459
20252025: 97 births, rank #1,688
Darrell rose from #911 to #895 for boys between 2016 and 2017. Its highest annual birth count came in 1958, with 4,771 births.