Daryle
Daryle was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 2,831 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,990 Americans named Daryle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 52 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daryle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daryle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,900, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
147 babies in 1970, the peak
Daryle peaked in 1970, when 147 babies were given it (142 boys, #697 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #12,900 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,992 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,441 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,334 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,669 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,010 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,807 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,496 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,731 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,731 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 9 | #6,422 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,746 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,306 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,898 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,583 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,855 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,477 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,130 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 21 | #2,974 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,653 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,872 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,967 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,193 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,305 | 12.4 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,987 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,695 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,145 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,800 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,553 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,325 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,143 | 13.4 |
| 1977 | 29 | #1,791 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 30 | #1,718 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 35 | #1,512 | 22.4 |
| 1974 | 34 | #1,502 | 21.6 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,206 | 30.2 |
| 1972 | 71 | #960 | 43.8 |
| 1971 | 119 | #749 | 67.3 |
| 1970 | 142 | #697 | 76.4 |
| 1969 | 88 | #824 | 49.2 |
| 1968 | 95 | #762 | 54.7 |
| 1967 | 62 | #919 | 35.6 |
| 1966 | 72 | #854 | 40.4 |
| 1965 | 63 | #930 | 33.9 |
| 1964 | 65 | #947 | 32.6 |
| 1963 | 40 | #1,231 | 19.7 |
| 1962 | 62 | #966 | 30.0 |
| 1961 | 52 | #1,083 | 24.5 |
| 1960 | 62 | #966 | 29.1 |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,051 | 25.3 |
| 1958 | 62 | #961 | 29.2 |
| 1957 | 61 | #972 | 28.3 |
| 1956 | 54 | #1,018 | 25.5 |
| 1955 | 61 | #958 | 29.6 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,228 | 18.1 |
| 1953 | 44 | #1,106 | 22.3 |
| 1952 | 38 | #1,197 | 19.6 |
| 1951 | 53 | #966 | 28.1 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,188 | 20.7 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,256 | 18.6 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,200 | 20.5 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,120 | 23.0 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,304 | 17.9 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,454 | 15.6 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,157 | 24.2 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,284 | 20.3 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,543 | 15.2 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,599 | 15.5 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,315 | 22.4 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,735 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,626 | 16.2 |
| 1937 | 16 | #1,774 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,476 | 20.2 |
| 1935 | 14 | #1,954 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 15 | #1,877 | 14.5 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,552 | 20.2 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,600 | 19.2 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,867 | 15.4 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,836 | 15.5 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,636 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,895 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,216 | 12.4 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,457 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,480 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,319 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,226 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,368 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,498 | 4.5 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,172 | 8.2 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,115 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daryle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,831 Americans recorded as Daryle, 7% are girls and 93% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daryle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daryle, and how old are they?
1,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 70% of the 2,831 Americans ever recorded as Daryle. The median Daryle alive today is 58 years old; half are between 52 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 1,912 people named Daryle (224 women and girls, 1,688 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,185 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 103 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 716 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 835 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 249 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 87 |
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 Daryle born?
The states with the most babies named Daryle are California, New York and Texas, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 134 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 74 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 40 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 14 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Daryle 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,971 babies since 1880, Daryle is the most given (57% 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 Daryle
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 Daryle and names like it
- Compare Daryle and DarryleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDaryle peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daryle since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Daryle.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Daryle alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.