Darrelyn
Darrelyn was last recorded in 1967, when 7 babies were given it; 122 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darrelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darrelyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,590, in 1967; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1950, the peak
Darrelyn peaked in 1950, when 10 girls were given it, #3,476 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 7 | #5,590 | 4.2 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,101 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,802 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,005 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,519 | 4.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,602 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,011 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,141 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,460 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,764 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 5 | #5,734 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,960 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,476 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,962 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,861 | 3.4 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,160 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,823 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,220 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darrelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darrelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darrelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darrelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 92 Americans named Darrelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 184 people named Darrelyn (176 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 101 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,584 babies since 1880, Darrelyn is the fifth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 38 babies recorded by SSA was a Darrelyn (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 Darrelyn
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 Darrelyn and names like it
- Compare Darrelyn and DarlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDarrelyn peaked in 1950.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Darrelyn.
- Names starting with DMost given first.