Darrell
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Especially North American: transferred use of the surname, originally a Norman baronial name (d’Airelle) borne by a family who came from Airelle in Calvados
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɛɹəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Darrell is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 2.2K
- CACanada≈1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #940 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 533 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈690,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Especially North American: transferred use of the surname, originally a Norman baronial name (d’Airelle) borne by a family who came from Airelle in Calvados. It was first used as a given name towards the end of the roth century, and has enjoyed a considerable vogue in the latter part of the 20th century. Variants: Darrel, Darell.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Darrell counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈690,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Darrell | 27 |
| US United States | #352 | 103,236 | 1 in 3.2K | 103K | Darrell | 533 |
| GB United Kingdom | #472 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 5 | Darrell | 214 |
| CA Canada | #360 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 1 | Darrell | 225 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Darrell | 7 |
| SG Singapore | #246 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Darrell | 67 |
| NZ New Zealand | #317 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 14 | Darrell | 77 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Darrell is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Old French.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Old French; the dear one, the beloved
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
English: transferred use of the surname, originally a Norman baronial name ( d'Airelle ) borne by a family who came from Airelle in Calvados. It was first used as a given name towards the end of the 19th century, and has enjoyed a considerable vogue in the latter part of the 20th century. Variants: Darrel, Darell .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Darrell Castleb. 1948USAmerican politician
- Darrell Issab. 1953USAmerican politician, inventor and entrepreneur
- Darrell Hammondb. 1955USAmerican actor and comedian
- Tim Russb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Darrell Rooneyb. 1959CACanadian animator, storyboard artist, and director
- Trace Adkinsb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican country music singer and actor
- Dimebag Darrellb. 1966USAmerican guitarist (1966–2004)
- Darrell Armstrongb. 1968USAmerican basketball player (born 1968)
- Darrell Britt-Gibsonb. 1985USAmerican actor
- Darrell Arthurb. 1988USAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Darrell mean, and where does it come from?
- Especially North American: transferred use of the surname, originally a Norman baronial name (d’Airelle) borne by a family who came from Airelle in Calvados. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Darrell a male or female name?
- Darrell is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Darrell have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 688 thousand people named Darrell in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled darrell.
- How do you pronounce Darrell?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛɹəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Darrell?
- In the etymology graph, Darryl, Daryl and Darrel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Darrell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 103,236 people named Darrell in 2020, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Darrell compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Darrell is the 246th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/darrellThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Darrell” — the 246th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.