Meaning not yet researched.
Darryl: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 69 in 2025. Its best rank was #68 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #68 in 1965; #2,115 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darryl in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,115 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #68.
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Darryl: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 69 boys in 2025. Peak: #68 in 1965 · most boys in one year: 5,134 (1961).
In 2025, 69 US boys were named Darryl, making it the 2,115th most common boys’ name of the year, down 317 places from #1,798 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 91 boys named Darryl in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #68, reached in 1965. The most boys given the name in a single year was 5,134, in 1961. For comparison, it was #1,039 in 2015 and #203 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darryl in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 93,419 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 39,553 babies named Darryl.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,161 US boys were named Darryl; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 184. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Darryl ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,054 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Darrell (160,952 babies since 1880), Daryl (67,477 babies since 1880), Darrel (29,892 babies since 1880) and Darryll (1,366 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Derryl, Darol and Daril are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Derryl (916), Darol (485), Daril (119), Daral (23), Daryal (18), Darail (14), Darayl (7).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Darryl in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,054 | #777 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,245 | #634 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,134 | #1,562 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 69 | #2,115 |
| 2024 | — | — | 91 | #1,798 |
| 2023 | — | — | 89 | #1,805 |
| 2022 | — | — | 104 | #1,656 |
| 2021 | — | — | 102 | #1,637 |
| 2020 | — | — | 115 | #1,479 |
| 2019 | — | — | 133 | #1,348 |
| 2018 | — | — | 136 | #1,329 |
| 2017 | — | — | 138 | #1,308 |
| 2016 | — | — | 184 | #1,073 |
| 2015 | — | — | 193 | #1,039 |
| 2014 | — | — | 178 | #1,083 |
| 2013 | — | — | 192 | #1,016 |
| 2012 | — | — | 212 | #952 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,295 | 209 | #950 |
| 2010 | — | — | 213 | #943 |
| 2009 | — | — | 235 | #889 |
| 2008 | — | — | 294 | #756 |
| 2007 | — | — | 242 | #859 |
| 2006 | — | — | 271 | #768 |
| 2005 | — | — | 260 | #763 |
| 2004 | — | — | 277 | #697 |
| 2003 | — | — | 281 | #689 |
| 2002 | — | — | 332 | #606 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,269 | 346 | #582 |
| 2000 | — | — | 384 | #550 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,689 | 391 | #533 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,343 | 420 | #507 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,135 | 488 | #451 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,310 | 522 | #431 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,644 | 538 | #423 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,284 | 632 | #373 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,477 | 704 | #344 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,149 | 793 | #321 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,767 | 1,003 | #269 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,554 | 1,054 | #256 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,615 | 1,130 | #236 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,363 | 1,080 | #229 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,192 | 1,076 | #223 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,387 | 1,075 | #219 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,166 | 1,126 | #215 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,991 | 1,078 | #212 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,725 | 974 | #229 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,993 | 986 | #237 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,967 | 940 | #239 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,570 | 848 | #259 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,822 | 761 | #271 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,733 | 727 | #271 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,724 | 694 | #279 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,386 | 705 | #274 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,627 | 674 | #285 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,049 | 708 | #269 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,679 | 785 | #251 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,584 | 900 | #239 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,200 | 1,064 | #221 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,083 | 1,367 | #195 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,002 | 1,593 | #174 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,723 | 2,067 | #140 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,175 | 2,826 | #109 |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,770 | 3,817 | #88 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,862 | 4,925 | #68 |
| 1964 | 35 | #2,020 | 4,420 | #87 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,687 | 5,013 | #80 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,832 | 4,969 | #83 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,723 | 5,134 | #80 |
| 1960 | 45 | #1,677 | 4,436 | #96 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,353 | 2,777 | #130 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,338 | 1,818 | #167 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,579 | 1,798 | #172 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,980 | 1,482 | #187 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,119 | 1,425 | #187 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,089 | 1,331 | #192 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,184 | 1,268 | #192 |
| 1952 | 26 | #1,987 | 1,099 | #200 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,260 | 1,074 | #198 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,936 | 1,011 | #203 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,672 | 858 | #216 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,513 | 835 | #224 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,908 | 826 | #222 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,503 | 650 | #238 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,358 | 470 | #278 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,115 | 420 | #289 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,582 | 401 | #309 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,857 | 468 | #279 |
| 1941 | — | — | 417 | #282 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,578 | 405 | #279 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,201 | 427 | #261 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,251 | 341 | #296 |
| 1937 | — | — | 223 | #362 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,792 | 181 | #406 |
| 1935 | — | — | 135 | #492 |
| 1934 | — | — | 97 | #598 |
| 1933 | — | — | 71 | #723 |
| 1932 | — | — | 45 | #983 |
| 1931 | — | — | 18 | #1,712 |
| 1930 | — | — | 20 | #1,657 |
| 1929 | — | — | 23 | #1,535 |
| 1928 | — | — | 15 | #2,067 |
| 1927 | — | — | 21 | #1,704 |
| 1926 | — | — | 16 | #2,002 |
| 1925 | — | — | 16 | #2,027 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,505 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,227 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,313 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,499 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,480 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,168 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,299 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,593 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #3,957 |
| 1914 | — | — | 8 | #2,490 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,564 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).