Darryl
The boy's name Darryl has been in the national records since 1913, with 93,419 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,108th. About 75,000 Darryls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Darryl boys named Darryl
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 93,419
- Estimated living today
- 75,000
- Median age today
- 59
- Peak year
- 1961
- Best rank
- 80th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,108th
- First recorded
- 1913
- Girls / boys
- 1,134 / 92,285
How old the living Darryls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 93,419 babies given the name since 1913, about 75,000 are alive — 80 in every hundred. Roughly 2,900 of them are children and 17,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Darryls
- Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979)American film producer
- Darryl Jones (born 1961)American bassist
- Darryl Hickman (1931–2024)American actor
- Darryl Powell (born 1971)Jamaican footballer
- Darryl Dawkins (1957–2015)American basketball player-coach
- Darryl McDaniels (born 1964)American rapper
- Darryl Sittler (born 1950)Canadian ice hockey player
- Darryl Middleton (born 1966)American/Spanish basketball player and coach
People named Darryl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Darryl is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Darryl is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (3.9×), Hawaii (2.2×), Louisiana (2.2×), Alabama (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1961
The most popular boys’ names the year Darryl peaked:
Darryl elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand boys | Darryl | 1,517 | 58th |
| Scotland boys | Darryl | 435 | 118th |
| England and Wales boys | Darryl | 419 | 335th |
| France boys | Darryl | 355 | 1,112th |
| Ireland boys | Darryl | 266 | 156th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Darryl | 90 | 143rd |
| Scotland girls | Darryl | 15 | 576th |
| Belgium boys | Darryl | 6 | 992nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Darryl against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.