Darryl
Darryl is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 91 births. Its best rank was 68th, in 1965.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 910.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19615,133 births
- Best rank
- #68in 1965
- Since 1913
- 93,345people given the name
The story in the numbers
92,211 boys have been named Darryl in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 5,133 births — 0.24% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 91 births in 2024, against 5,133 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1960s alone account for 43%. It has spent 81 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 7 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,134 girls have also been given it, 1.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Darryl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 47 | |
| 1920s | 124 | |
| 1930s | 1,558 | |
| 1940s | 5,748 | |
| 1950s | 15,086 | |
| 1960s | 39,197 | |
| 1970s | 8,385 | |
| 1980s | 10,314 | |
| 1990s | 6,543 | |
| 2000s | 2,921 | |
| 2010s | 1,788 | |
| 2020s | 500 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Darryl was the 80th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1961 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Darryl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Darrylepeak 1961
- Darryllpeak 1960
- Timmypeak 1960
- Darrypeak 1960
- Todpeak 1962
- Timmiepeak 1959
- Robpeak 1963
- Rodpeak 1960
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.