Meaning not yet researched.
Daryl: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 113 in 2025. Its best rank was #161 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #161 in 1970; #1,529 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Daryl in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,529 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #161.
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Daryl: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 113 boys in 2025. Peak: #161 in 1970 · most boys in one year: 1,832 (1956).
In 2025, 113 US boys were named Daryl, making it the 1,529th most common boys’ name of the year, up 471 places from #2,000 in 2024. That is 36 more than the 77 boys named Daryl in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #161, reached in 1970. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,832, in 1956. For comparison, it was #1,160 in 2015 and #205 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Daryl in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 13 babies. In all, 67,477 US babies have been given the name, 6.5% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 15,914 babies named Daryl.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 977 US boys were named Daryl; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 142. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,116 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Daryl ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,148 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), Darryl (93,419 babies since 1880), Darrel (29,892 babies since 1880) and Deryl (2,016 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Darylle 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: Darylle (6).
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 Daryl 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 5 | #1,148 | #1,112 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,277 | #958 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,280 | #882 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,316 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,319 | #858 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,505 | #1,383 |
| California | 11 | #1,527 | #1,660 |
| New York | 6 | #1,614 | #1,085 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 113 | #1,529 |
| 2024 | — | — | 77 | #2,000 |
| 2023 | — | — | 75 | #2,016 |
| 2022 | — | — | 78 | #1,970 |
| 2021 | — | — | 92 | #1,754 |
| 2020 | — | — | 97 | #1,648 |
| 2019 | — | — | 74 | #1,979 |
| 2018 | — | — | 99 | #1,641 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,906 | 130 | #1,366 |
| 2016 | — | — | 142 | #1,280 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,121 | 161 | #1,160 |
| 2014 | — | — | 139 | #1,278 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,203 | 138 | #1,264 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,435 | 100 | #1,578 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,892 | 104 | #1,526 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,832 | 111 | #1,470 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,721 | 136 | #1,292 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,214 | 163 | #1,122 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,873 | 165 | #1,105 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,355 | 178 | #1,029 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,322 | 185 | #947 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,412 | 161 | #1,018 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,200 | 175 | #939 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,005 | 181 | #895 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,395 | 199 | #824 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,035 | 233 | #735 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,476 | 211 | #757 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,591 | 242 | #694 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,730 | 293 | #602 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,913 | 291 | #607 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,597 | 310 | #583 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,473 | 354 | #548 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,390 | 409 | #504 |
| 1992 | 52 | #2,467 | 422 | #488 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,362 | 488 | #445 |
| 1990 | 73 | #1,912 | 499 | #442 |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,150 | 567 | #388 |
| 1988 | 77 | #1,675 | 649 | #332 |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,633 | 679 | #315 |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,575 | 689 | #298 |
| 1985 | 53 | #2,026 | 715 | #287 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,936 | 633 | #307 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,726 | 656 | #301 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,806 | 719 | #284 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,029 | 770 | #274 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,366 | 763 | #276 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,565 | 871 | #246 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,530 | 839 | #246 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,266 | 1,000 | #222 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,200 | 896 | #227 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,895 | 840 | #247 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,338 | 954 | #222 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,274 | 1,028 | #212 |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,408 | 1,200 | #193 |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,185 | 1,593 | #168 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,207 | 1,793 | #161 |
| 1969 | 56 | #1,594 | 1,605 | #173 |
| 1968 | 55 | #1,541 | 1,513 | #176 |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,665 | 1,340 | #183 |
| 1966 | 61 | #1,405 | 1,330 | #185 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,721 | 1,429 | #179 |
| 1964 | 77 | #1,257 | 1,529 | #181 |
| 1963 | 69 | #1,331 | 1,610 | #183 |
| 1962 | 62 | #1,409 | 1,577 | #192 |
| 1961 | 79 | #1,246 | 1,681 | #184 |
| 1960 | 97 | #1,094 | 1,654 | #188 |
| 1959 | 106 | #1,031 | 1,560 | #189 |
| 1958 | 103 | #1,029 | 1,787 | #170 |
| 1957 | 116 | #959 | 1,693 | #179 |
| 1956 | 136 | #853 | 1,832 | #165 |
| 1955 | 146 | #797 | 1,536 | #178 |
| 1954 | 128 | #832 | 1,468 | #180 |
| 1953 | 118 | #862 | 1,354 | #187 |
| 1952 | 141 | #748 | 1,183 | #193 |
| 1951 | 158 | #697 | 1,117 | #196 |
| 1950 | 165 | #665 | 976 | #205 |
| 1949 | 155 | #669 | 977 | #205 |
| 1948 | 134 | #731 | 855 | #219 |
| 1947 | 112 | #830 | 735 | #240 |
| 1946 | 79 | #939 | 600 | #255 |
| 1945 | 74 | #873 | 392 | #302 |
| 1944 | 55 | #1,055 | 370 | #313 |
| 1943 | 49 | #1,155 | 361 | #320 |
| 1942 | 49 | #1,126 | 336 | #332 |
| 1941 | 49 | #1,043 | 331 | #324 |
| 1940 | 49 | #1,027 | 333 | #307 |
| 1939 | 48 | #1,023 | 288 | #324 |
| 1938 | 37 | #1,204 | 242 | #358 |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,203 | 229 | #356 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,419 | 207 | #381 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,517 | 134 | #495 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,319 | 158 | #449 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,185 | 172 | #414 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,684 | 154 | #462 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,031 | 124 | #519 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,955 | 134 | #516 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,196 | 122 | #528 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,843 | 106 | #601 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,939 | 117 | #570 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,600 | 126 | #541 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,163 | 95 | #654 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,188 | 102 | #635 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,506 | 95 | #658 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,572 | 199 | #426 |
| 1921 | — | — | 67 | #843 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,150 | 51 | #966 |
| 1919 | — | — | 39 | #1,103 |
| 1918 | — | — | 35 | #1,179 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,416 | 32 | #1,204 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,084 | 16 | #1,870 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,880 | 30 | #1,188 |
| 1914 | — | — | 22 | #1,275 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,565 |
| 1912 | — | — | 13 | #1,372 |
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).