girls:
49 births since 1962
#5667 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1958
#2999 (35th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1958
#5993 (23rd percentile)
The name Darryn is the #5,993 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,758 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 22.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,999 (34.6% percentile) for all time with 1,709 births since 1958. For girls, it ranks #5,667 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 49 births since 1962.
Darryn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for boys and 1962 for girls).
The name Darryn has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Darryn reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 12.0% percentile (ranked #566) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 43 births per million (ranked 12.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Darryn ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 6.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darryn reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #954) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darryn".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Darryn", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 35 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Darren" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Darren..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Darryn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.7% confident that Darryn is pronounced as DEH-rihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-rihn, at 30.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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