Daryl
Daryl is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 77 births. Its best rank was 161st, in 1970.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 770.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19561,832 births
- Best rank
- #161in 1970
- Since 1912
- 67,359people given the name
The story in the numbers
62,940 boys have been named Daryl in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 1,832 births.
The name has all but left use: 77 births in 2024, against 1,832 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1960s alone account for 24%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,419 girls have also been given it, 6.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Daryl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 193 | |
| 1920s | 1,080 | |
| 1930s | 1,842 | |
| 1940s | 5,290 | |
| 1950s | 14,505 | |
| 1960s | 15,268 | |
| 1970s | 11,014 | |
| 1980s | 6,840 | |
| 1990s | 3,519 | |
| 2000s | 1,776 | |
| 2010s | 1,196 | |
| 2020s | 417 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Daryl was the 165th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1956 were Michael, James, Robert, David and John. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Daryl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Keithpeak 1957
- Craigpeak 1960
- Gregorypeak 1962
- Nickypeak 1959
- Randellpeak 1960
- Daryllpeak 1960
- Terencepeak 1964
- Jonpeak 1964
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.