Darrilyn
Darrilyn was last recorded in 1987, when 5 babies were given it; 51 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darrilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darrilyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,720, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1955, the peak
Darrilyn peaked in 1955, when 8 girls were given it, #4,461 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #11,720 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,347 | 2.9 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,803 | 2.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,702 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,001 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,269 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,143 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,461 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,735 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darrilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darrilyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darrilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darrilyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 43 Americans named Darrilyn 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 149 people named Darrilyn (141 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 45 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 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).
How common is the spelling Darrilyn?
Darrilyn is a less common spelling of Darilyn: SSA has recorded 51 Darrilyn and 632 Darilyn since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,584 babies since 1880, Darrilyn is the seventh most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 38 babies recorded by SSA was a Darrilyn (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.
More about Darrilyn and names like it
- Compare Darrilyn and DarilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDarrilyn peaked in 1955.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Darrilyn.
- Names starting with DMost given first.