Darryll
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Darryll has been given to 1,366 babies in the U.S. since 1936. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1960, with 63 recorded.
Babies named Darryll, 2016
1 in 734,000
Darryll over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Darryll?
Darryll had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 734,000
- 5 of 3,669,531 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 380,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 508,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Darryll sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darryll. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Darrylls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Darryll was born before 1966 — so the typical Darryll is around 59 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 35.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 10.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,237
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (485).
Is Darryll rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1960 (63)
- Years since peak
- 65
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.1% average annual change
Spellings of Darryll
Darryll is not the most common spelling — Darrell is, with 35.7% against Darryll's 0.30%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Darryll is used
Across 1910–2025, Darryll was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 598,377 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Massachusetts1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7Ohio1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Darryll has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Darryll around the world
Where Darryll ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–1997#2,859in 1997
- Scotland1992–1993#378in 1993
- South Australia1947–2005#643in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Darryll by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Darryll
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Darryll
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.