Darilyn
Darilyn was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 632 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darilyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,880, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1959, the peak
Darilyn peaked in 1959, when 24 girls were given it, #2,351 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #16,880 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,094 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,198 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,422 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,820 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,057 | 3.8 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,130 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,021 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,940 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,073 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 9 | #9,458 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,196 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,197 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,938 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,835 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,993 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,751 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,721 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,466 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,843 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,135 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,823 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,579 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,542 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,830 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,011 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,311 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,342 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,495 | 7.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,617 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,328 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,434 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,675 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,185 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,354 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,813 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,088 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,041 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,586 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,786 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,436 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,019 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,661 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,957 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,064 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,734 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,351 | 11.9 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,771 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,499 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,333 | 11.5 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,247 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,254 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,956 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,840 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,323 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,199 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,645 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,652 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,288 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,731 | 5.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,704 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,218 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,381 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,242 | 7.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darilyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darilyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 542 Americans named Darilyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 38 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 597 people named Darilyn (586 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 569 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,187 babies since 1880, Darilyn is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 none of their 81 babies recorded by SSA was a Darilyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Darilyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Darilyn and names like it
- Compare Darilyn and DarlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDarilyn peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darilyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Darilyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Darilyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.