Dary
Dary was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 168 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,736, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1987, the peak
Dary peaked in 1987, when 13 babies were given it (5 boys, #7,187 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | under 5 | 5 | #12,736 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 5 | #12,621 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 6 | #11,366 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #10,385 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,105 | |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,171 | 5 | #7,187 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,350 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,042 | 7 | #5,262 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,446 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,505 | 5 | #6,574 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,651 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 9 | #3,335 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 9 | #2,952 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 8 | #3,045 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #4,067 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 8 | #3,036 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,172 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 9 | #2,940 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,157 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,118 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 9 | #2,876 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 7 | #3,313 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 5 | #4,065 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,582 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Dary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 168 Americans recorded as Dary, 14% are girls and 86% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dary, and how old are they?
An estimated 145 Americans named Dary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 39 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 679 people named Dary (296 women and girls, 383 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dary rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Dary?
Dary is a less common spelling of Darry: SSA has recorded 168 Dary and 1,536 Darry since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 15,021 babies since 1880, Dary is the sixth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 392 babies recorded by SSA was a Dary (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 Dary and names like it
- Compare Dary and DarryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDary peaked in 1987.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Dary.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Dary alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.