# Daryl (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/daryl/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 67,477 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 63,058 / 4,419 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 641, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 17 | 6,395 |
| 2002 | 11 | 9,005 |
| 2003 | 11 | 9,200 |
| 2004 | 11 | 9,412 |
| 2005 | 10 | 10,322 |
| 2006 | 14 | 8,355 |
| 2007 | 9 | 11,873 |
| 2008 | 7 | 14,214 |
| 2009 | 8 | 12,721 |
| 2010 | 7 | 13,832 |
| 2011 | 11 | 9,892 |
| 2012 | 6 | 15,435 |
| 2013 | 5 | 17,203 |
| 2015 | 8 | 12,121 |
| 2017 | 9 | 10,906 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 104 | 1,526 |
| 2012 | 100 | 1,578 |
| 2013 | 138 | 1,264 |
| 2014 | 139 | 1,278 |
| 2015 | 161 | 1,160 |
| 2016 | 142 | 1,280 |
| 2017 | 130 | 1,366 |
| 2018 | 99 | 1,641 |
| 2019 | 74 | 1,979 |
| 2020 | 97 | 1,648 |
| 2021 | 92 | 1,754 |
| 2022 | 78 | 1,970 |
| 2023 | 75 | 2,016 |
| 2024 | 77 | 2,000 |
| 2025 | 113 | 1,529 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 17 | 1,112 |
| 1997 | 11 | 1,543 |
| 1998 | 9 | 1,823 |
| 1999 | 3 | 3,900 |
| 2002 | 5 | 2,868 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,725 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 1,909 |
| 2012 | 11 | 1,962 |
| 2013 | 14 | 1,617 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,459 |
| 2015 | 19 | 1,327 |
| 2016 | 13 | 1,804 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,398 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1,533 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2,728 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2,165 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2,921 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2,269 |

## People named Daryl

- Daryl Hannah, American actress and director (born 1960)
- Daryl Sabara, American actor (born 1992)
- Daryl Janmaat, Dutch association football player (born 1989)
- Daryl Homer, American fencer
- Daryl Hall, American musician
- Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist
- Daryl Dike, American soccer player
- Daryl Bultor, French volleyball player
- Daryl Mitchell, American actor and rapper
- Daryl Davis, American R&B and blues musician, activist, author, actor and bandleader
- Daryl Boyle, Canadian ice hockey player
- Daryl Gregory, American writer (b. 1965)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.