Darrel is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Darrel is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Darrel. In the SmartGenius ranking, Darrel is #3,203 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 25,290 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Darrel. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
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 six letters, the name Darrel is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Darrel 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 Darrel, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Rocket
Rocket
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Darrel
Darrel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
R
R
E
L
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
R
R
E
L
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. Darrel sounds like this:
