girls:
4.4k births since 1915
#2565 (55th percentile)
boys:
62.9k births since 1912
#420 (91st percentile)
overall:
67.3k births since 1912
#891 (88th percentile)
The name Daryl is the #891 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 67,279 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 88.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #420 (90.9% percentile) for all time with 62,860 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #2,565 (55.1% percentile) for all time with 4,419 births since 1915.
Daryl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1915 for girls).
The name Daryl has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Daryl reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 76.2% percentile (ranked #160) with 942 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 942 births per million (ranked 76.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Daryl ranks #842 for boys (7.6% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 4.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Daryl reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 23.1% percentile (ranked #516) with 94 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 94 births per million (ranked 23.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Daryl".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Daryl", 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 4 different pronunciations for the name Daryl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.1% confident that Daryl is pronounced as DEH-ruhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-ruhl, at 22.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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