girls:
1.1k births since 1936
#4582 (20th percentile)
boys:
92.1k births since 1913
#326 (93rd percentile)
overall:
93.3k births since 1913
#721 (91st percentile)
The name Darryl is the #721 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 93,253 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 90.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #326 (92.9% percentile) for all time with 92,119 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #4,582 (19.8% percentile) for all time with 1,134 births since 1936.
Darryl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1936 for girls). Birth data for Darryl is available in 110 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (110 years for boys and 64 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Darryl has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Darryl reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 89.6% percentile (ranked #68) with 2,601 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 2,601 births per million (ranked 89.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1988, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Darryl ranks #827 for boys (9.2% percentile) with 49 births per million, which is 1.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darryl reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #730) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 24 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darryl".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Darryl", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 41 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Darrell" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Darrell..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Darryl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.6% confident that Darryl is pronounced as DEH-ruhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-ruhl, at 22.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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