Daryl
Daryl was given to 113 boys in 2025, #1,529 among boys’ names; 67,477 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 51,200 Americans named Daryl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 44 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daryl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Daryl mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Daryl is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Darrell.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Daryl?
#1,529 among boys’ names, 2025
Daryl fell from #1,160 in 2015 to #1,529 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 84.0 to 66.2 per million.
1,968 babies in 1956, the peak
Daryl peaked in 1956, when 1,968 babies were given it (1,832 boys, #165 among boys’ names). The 113 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113 | #1,529 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,000 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 75 | #2,015 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 78 | #1,969 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 92 | #1,754 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 97 | #1,648 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 74 | #1,978 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,641 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 130 | #1,366 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 142 | #1,280 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 161 | #1,160 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 139 | #1,278 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 138 | #1,264 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,578 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,526 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,470 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,292 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 163 | #1,122 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 165 | #1,105 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 178 | #1,029 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 185 | #946 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 161 | #1,017 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 175 | #938 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 181 | #894 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 199 | #823 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 233 | #734 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 211 | #755 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 242 | #694 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 293 | #602 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 291 | #607 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 310 | #582 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 354 | #547 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 409 | #504 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 422 | #488 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 488 | #445 | 0.24 |
| 1990 | 499 | #441 | 0.24 |
| 1989 | 567 | #388 | 0.28 |
| 1988 | 649 | #332 | 0.34 |
| 1987 | 679 | #315 | 0.36 |
| 1986 | 689 | #298 | 0.37 |
| 1985 | 715 | #287 | 0.39 |
| 1984 | 633 | #307 | 0.35 |
| 1983 | 656 | #301 | 0.37 |
| 1982 | 719 | #284 | 0.40 |
| 1981 | 770 | #274 | 0.43 |
| 1980 | 763 | #276 | 0.43 |
| 1979 | 871 | #246 | 0.51 |
| 1978 | 839 | #246 | 0.51 |
| 1977 | 1,000 | #222 | 0.61 |
| 1976 | 896 | #227 | 0.57 |
| 1975 | 840 | #247 | 0.54 |
| 1974 | 954 | #222 | 0.61 |
| 1973 | 1,028 | #212 | 0.66 |
| 1972 | 1,200 | #193 | 0.74 |
| 1971 | 1,593 | #168 | 0.90 |
| 1970 | 1,793 | #161 | 1.0 |
| 1969 | 1,605 | #173 | 0.90 |
| 1968 | 1,513 | #176 | 0.87 |
| 1967 | 1,340 | #183 | 0.77 |
| 1966 | 1,330 | #185 | 0.75 |
| 1965 | 1,429 | #179 | 0.77 |
| 1964 | 1,529 | #181 | 0.77 |
| 1963 | 1,610 | #183 | 0.79 |
| 1962 | 1,577 | #192 | 0.76 |
| 1961 | 1,681 | #184 | 0.79 |
| 1960 | 1,654 | #188 | 0.78 |
| 1959 | 1,560 | #189 | 0.73 |
| 1958 | 1,787 | #170 | 0.84 |
| 1957 | 1,693 | #179 | 0.78 |
| 1956 | 1,832 | #165 | 0.87 |
| 1955 | 1,536 | #178 | 0.75 |
| 1954 | 1,468 | #180 | 0.72 |
| 1953 | 1,354 | #187 | 0.69 |
| 1952 | 1,183 | #193 | 0.61 |
| 1951 | 1,117 | #196 | 0.59 |
| 1950 | 976 | #205 | 0.55 |
| 1949 | 977 | #205 | 0.55 |
| 1948 | 855 | #219 | 0.49 |
| 1947 | 735 | #240 | 0.40 |
| 1946 | 600 | #255 | 0.37 |
| 1945 | 392 | #302 | 0.29 |
| 1944 | 370 | #313 | 0.27 |
| 1943 | 361 | #320 | 0.25 |
| 1942 | 336 | #332 | 0.24 |
| 1941 | 331 | #324 | 0.27 |
| 1940 | 333 | #307 | 0.29 |
| 1939 | 288 | #324 | 0.26 |
| 1938 | 242 | #358 | 0.22 |
| 1937 | 229 | #356 | 0.21 |
| 1936 | 207 | #381 | 0.20 |
| 1935 | 134 | #495 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 158 | #449 | 0.15 |
| 1933 | 172 | #414 | 0.17 |
| 1932 | 154 | #462 | 0.15 |
| 1931 | 124 | #519 | 0.12 |
| 1930 | 134 | #516 | 0.12 |
| 1929 | 122 | #528 | 0.11 |
| 1928 | 106 | #601 | 0.10 |
| 1927 | 117 | #570 | 0.10 |
| 1926 | 126 | #541 | 0.11 |
| 1925 | 95 | #654 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 102 | #635 | 0.09 |
| 1923 | 95 | #658 | 0.09 |
| 1922 | 199 | #426 | 0.18 |
| 1921 | 67 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 51 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,179 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 32 | #1,204 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,869 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,188 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,564 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,371 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daryl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 67,477 Americans recorded as Daryl, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 113 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daryl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daryl, and how old are they?
51,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 67,477 Americans ever recorded as Daryl. The median Daryl alive today is 57 years old; half are between 44 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 50,922 people named Daryl (3,486 women and girls, 47,436 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 54,708 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,270 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19,300 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 17,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,430 |
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).
Where are babies named Daryl born?
The states with the most babies named Daryl are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5,873 | #1,527 | 0.9× |
| New York | 4,329 | #1,614 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 3,756 | #1,277 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 3,620 | #1,319 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 3,413 | #1,148 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 3,357 | #1,505 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 2,973 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 2,202 | #1,280 | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 1,888 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Iowa | 1,806 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Daryl is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daryl is most over-represented in South Dakota: since 1912 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Daryl with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 211,442 babies since 1880, Daryl is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 113 of their 1,386 babies (8.2%), again the second most given.
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 Daryl
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 Daryl and names like it
- Compare Daryl and DarrylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDaryl peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daryl since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Daryl: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Daryl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Daryl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.