Daryl
About 67,477 American babies have been named Daryl since 1912, most of them around 1956. In 2025 it ranked 1,529th. About 52,000 Daryls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Daryl boys named Daryl
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 67,477
- Estimated living today
- 52,000
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1956
- Best rank
- 165th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,529th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 4,419 / 63,058
How old the living Daryls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 67,477 babies given the name since 1912, about 52,000 are alive — 77 in every hundred. Roughly 2,100 of them are children and 16,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 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 Daryls
- Daryl Hannah (born 1960)American actress and director
- Daryl Sabara (born 1992)American actor
- Daryl Janmaat (born 1989)Dutch association football player
- Daryl Impey (born 1984)South African racing cyclist
- Daryl Murphy (born 1983)Irish association football player
- Daryl Homer (born 1990)American fencer
- Daryl Hall (born 1946)American musician
- Daryl McCormack (born 1993)Irish actor
People named Daryl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Daryl is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Daryl is most concentrated in South Dakota (2.7×), North Dakota (2.4×), Iowa (2.2×), the District of Columbia (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1956
The most popular boys’ names the year Daryl peaked:
Daryl elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Daryl | 1,785 | 588th |
| Scotland boys | Daryl | 958 | 90th |
| Ireland boys | Daryl | 772 | 105th |
| England and Wales boys | Daryl | 588 | 257th |
| New Zealand boys | Daryl | 421 | 95th |
| Belgium boys | Daryl | 117 | 694th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Daryl | 108 | 124th |
| Switzerland boys | Daryl | 84 | 604th |
| England and Wales girls | Daryl | 53 | 1,112th |
| Scotland girls | Daryl | 52 | 329th |
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.
Daryl: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Daryl | 22 | 0.002% | 678th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Daryl | 61 | 0.014% | 278th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Daryl | 1 | 0.002% | 182nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Daryl is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.01% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Daryl: rank by region
In 2024, Daryl was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Daryl | 269 | 10 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Daryl appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (221st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Daryl among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Daryl | 11 | 12 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Daryl lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 239 men called Daryl were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Daryl | 17 | 0.029 | 2,459 |
| Tarragona | Daryl | 11 | 0.025 | 2,005 |
| Girona | Daryl | 9 | 0.022 | 2,299 |
| Barcelona | Daryl | 59 | 0.020 | 2,334 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Daryl | 9 | 0.017 | 3,833 |
| Málaga | Daryl | 15 | 0.017 | 2,530 |
Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Daryl against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.