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Daryle

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Daryle has been given to 2,831 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1970, with 142 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Daryle, 2009

1 in 764,000

Daryle over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Daryle over time

In 2009, Daryle went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19172009

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Daryle: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Daryle means

Daryle is a given name.

The naming story behind Daryle

Wikidata records Daryle as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q112566782, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,633 boys were recorded with the name Daryle between 1917 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 142 in 1970; its best national rank was #697 in 1970.

In the United States, 198 girls were recorded with the name Daryle between 1933 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1946; its best national rank was #2,638 in 1946.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Daryle?

Daryle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 397,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daryle sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daryle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daryles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daryle was born before 1964 — so the typical Daryle is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,077
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (661).

Is Daryle 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 1970 (142)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#697
1970

Spellings of Daryle

Daryle is not the most common spelling — Dale is, with 53.5% against Daryle's 0.51%.

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 Daryle is used

Across 1910–2025, Daryle was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 255,554 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Iowa1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Daryle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Daryle around the world

Where Daryle 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 & Wales
    1999–1999
    #2,943
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1944–2000
    #556
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Daryle

People whose public names include Daryle, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Daryle by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#697
1970
Peak year
1970
142 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
2,633
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,638
1946
Peak year
1946
14 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
198
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Daryle

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Daryle

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Daryle, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RodericKiethDarcyDwaneKennthKarenMickyKenneyNickyLennieLonnyRoddy

Sibling names for Daryle

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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