Darryle
Darryle was last recorded in 2016, when 6 babies were given it; 1,431 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Darryle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 43 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darryle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darryle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,029, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
75 babies in 1961, the peak
Darryle peaked in 1961, when 75 boys were given it, #883 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | #11,029 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,698 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,053 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,089 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,936 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,766 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,439 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,830 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,735 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,625 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #9,520 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,341 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,648 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,993 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,744 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,216 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,152 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,167 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,854 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,820 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,553 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,073 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,624 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,240 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,567 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,160 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,247 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,986 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,273 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,868 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,357 | 11.7 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,669 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,802 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,649 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,663 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,729 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,109 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,835 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 24 | #1,829 | 15.4 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,178 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 35 | #1,444 | 19.8 |
| 1970 | 33 | #1,469 | 17.8 |
| 1969 | 25 | #1,650 | 14.0 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,193 | 23.6 |
| 1967 | 48 | #1,063 | 27.5 |
| 1966 | 58 | #952 | 32.5 |
| 1965 | 73 | #860 | 39.2 |
| 1964 | 62 | #969 | 31.1 |
| 1963 | 68 | #905 | 33.5 |
| 1962 | 60 | #987 | 29.0 |
| 1961 | 75 | #883 | 35.3 |
| 1960 | 66 | #930 | 31.0 |
| 1959 | 31 | #1,418 | 14.5 |
| 1958 | 29 | #1,452 | 13.7 |
| 1957 | 19 | #1,845 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 21 | #1,730 | 9.9 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,739 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 26 | #1,502 | 12.8 |
| 1953 | 23 | #1,599 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,405 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,708 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 15 | #1,959 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 19 | #1,713 | 10.7 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,772 | 10.3 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,399 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,303 | 6.8 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,281 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,340 | 7.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,676 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,701 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,208 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,890 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,638 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,655 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darryle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darryle has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darryle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darryle, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 1,431 Americans ever recorded as Darryle. The median Darryle alive today is 59 years old; half are between 43 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 877 people named Darryle (35 women and girls, 842 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,225 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 18 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 425 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 378 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 237 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 84 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,284 babies since 1880, Darryle is the second most given (27% of them).
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 Darryle
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 Darryle and names like it
- Compare Darryle and DaryleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDarryle peaked in 1961.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darryle since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Darryle.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Darryle alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.