Daryl — #1994 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Daryl

The Social Security Administration has registered 62,940 babies named Daryl between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Daryl currently holds the #1994 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 1,832 babies received it in a single year. Daryl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,419 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Daryl performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 15,268 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Daryl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,573 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Daryl in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Daryl in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 62,940 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.