Darryll
Darryll was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 1,366 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Darryll and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 44 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darryll by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darryll?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,618, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1960, the peak
Darryll peaked in 1960, when 63 boys were given it, #954 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #12,618 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,301 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,451 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,233 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,383 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,249 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,847 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,651 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,931 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,342 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 9 | #6,649 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,732 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,303 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,568 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,102 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,059 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,779 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,535 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,810 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,324 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,229 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,743 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,440 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,369 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,309 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,427 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,613 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,924 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,294 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,040 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 25 | #1,978 | 15.2 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,476 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,527 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,658 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,379 | 10.8 |
| 1973 | 23 | #1,885 | 14.8 |
| 1972 | 28 | #1,657 | 17.3 |
| 1971 | 22 | #1,933 | 12.4 |
| 1970 | 40 | #1,316 | 21.5 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,817 | 11.7 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,222 | 22.4 |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,220 | 21.8 |
| 1966 | 50 | #1,034 | 28.0 |
| 1965 | 58 | #967 | 31.2 |
| 1964 | 59 | #983 | 29.6 |
| 1963 | 52 | #1,055 | 25.6 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,152 | 21.8 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,003 | 28.2 |
| 1960 | 63 | #954 | 29.5 |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,325 | 16.4 |
| 1958 | 29 | #1,453 | 13.7 |
| 1957 | 20 | #1,800 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,393 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,740 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 17 | #1,908 | 8.3 |
| 1953 | 16 | #1,978 | 8.1 |
| 1952 | 21 | #1,673 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 22 | #1,606 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,236 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,771 | 10.1 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,357 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,709 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,050 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,154 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,501 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,440 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,562 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,702 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,708 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,317 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,925 | 6.3 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,233 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darryll a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darryll has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darryll: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darryll, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 1,366 Americans ever recorded as Darryll. The median Darryll alive today is 58 years old; half are between 44 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 939 people named Darryll (19 women and girls, 920 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,162 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 379 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 380 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 223 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 75 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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).
How common is the spelling Darryll?
Darryll is a less common spelling of Darryl: SSA has recorded 1,366 Darryll and 93,419 Darryl since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 361,004 babies since 1880, Darryll is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 383 babies recorded by SSA was a Darryll (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 Darryll
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 Darryll and names like it
- Compare Darryll and DarrylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDarryll peaked in 1960.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darryll since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Darryll.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Darryll alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.