Darold
4,195 recorded births · active 1912–2021
Compare Darold →Living-age distribution
The median living Darold is 65. If you meet a Darold, there's about a 70% chance they're between 46 and 81 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Darold: 1932. Down 96% from peak.
Gender balance
Darold is almost always given to male babies — 100% male.
Rarity
Darold ranks #4,725 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Darolds are 1.2x more common in the Midwest than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Darold's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Darold's modeled peak was #1,235 in 1932 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Darold peaked in 1932 and now sits at roughly 4% of that peak, 93 years later — a name that was genuinely common once, now mostly heard from an older generation.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Darold isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Darold enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.