Darek is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Darek in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Darek in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Darek by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Darek ranks at #4,661. That means there are 4,660 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Darek.
In fact, the name Darek wasn't vogue in the 19th century, but between 1900 and 1975 young parents changed that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Darek seemed more popular than ever in 1973, when 53 parents named their sons Darek. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,009, that year parents chose it as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Darek, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Darek was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Darek a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 2,882, for a total of 36 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for a many years. As Darek seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Darek. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 110 Americans who bear this name. And these 110 men and boys named Darek live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan and New York. In the other 43 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Darek lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Darek and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Darek relative to its male population is California. And even there, only one male in 355,036 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Darek.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Darek is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Darek and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Darek, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
A
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K
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Darek sounds like this:
