Quick answers about Darnel
How many people are named Darnel?
An estimated 914 living Americans are named Darnel.
How rare is Darnel?
Darnel fell below the SSA's 5-birth reporting floor in 2025. It is extremely rare as a new baby name.
How old is the typical Darnel?
The median age of a living American named Darnel is approximately 39 years, with most bearers falling between 29 and 51 years old.
Is Darnel still popular?
Not especially. Darnel has been declining since its 1986 peak and registered 0 births in 2025.
Where is Darnel most common?
Darnel has its strongest geographic signal in New York, where it appears 3.7× more often than the national baseline.
1937Peak 19862025
Where it lives now
Darnel is most concentrated in New York — about 3.7× the national rate in the 1990s.
States where Darnel is given more often than the national average — its present-day heartland.
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