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How popular is “Darnel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Darnel” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Darnel” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Darnel” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Darnel” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Darnel” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Darnel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Darnel” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1937 7 0.000003285 7 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1957 11 0.000002618 6 5 9%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1960 11 0.000002648 11 -100%
1961 12 0.000002897 12 -100%
1962 24 0.000005947 7 17 -42%
1963 27 0.000006821 10 17 -26%
1964 15 0.000003858 15 -100%
1965 15 0.000004137 5 10 -33%
1966 20 0.000005754 7 13 -30%
1967 12 0.000003535 12 -100%
1968 18 0.000005328 6 12 -33%
1969 14 0.000004028 14 -100%
1970 25 0.000006932 5 20 -60%
1971 17 0.000004953 17 -100%
1972 18 0.000005727 18 -100%
1973 13 0.000004309 13 -100%
1974 17 0.000005592 17 -100%
1975 14 0.000004637 14 -100%
1976 26 0.000008569 26 -100%
1977 10 0.000003148 10 -100%
1978 18 0.000005671 18 -100%
1979 22 0.000006613 22 -100%
1980 26 0.000007548 26 -100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 -100%
1982 17 0.000004846 17 -100%
1983 16 0.00000462 16 -100%
1984 23 0.000006593 23 -100%
1985 16 0.000004483 16 -100%
1986 36 0.000010121 36 -100%
1987 18 0.000004992 18 -100%
1988 23 0.000006225 23 -100%
1989 29 0.000007543 29 -100%
1990 33 0.000008349 33 -100%
1991 18 0.000004621 18 -100%
1992 21 0.000005467 21 -100%
1993 22 0.000005835 22 -100%
1994 31 0.000008339 31 -100%
1995 23 0.00000628 23 -100%
1996 20 0.000005484 20 -100%
1997 17 0.000004689 17 -100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 -100%
1999 20 0.000005414 20 -100%
2000 24 0.000006349 24 -100%
2001 13 0.000003473 13 -100%
2002 16 0.00000428 16 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2004 12 0.000003141 12 -100%
2005 15 0.000003901 15 -100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 -100%
2007 12 0.000003002 12 -100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 -100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 -100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 -100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 -100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 -100%
2017 11 0.000003076 11 -100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 -100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 -100%

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