Darryl is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Darryl is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1116 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,115 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 87,237 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Darryl. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Darryl reached its highest rank ever in the year 1965 at #68. In other words: 4,963 newborn boys were named Darryl that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Darryl is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Darryl will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Darryl was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Darryl ranked 1,511 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 103 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Darryl will remain a universally popular name.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Darryl occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Darryl is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Darryl is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 87,140 men and boys of all generations bear the name Darryl – that is one in 1,916. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Louisiana, where one in 400 men and boys is called Darryl, while it is particularly rare in South Dakota, where you have to ask an average of 17,236 men for their name to get Darryl as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Darryl is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Darryl and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Darryl, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Rocket
Rocket
Yoyo
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Darryl
Darryl
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
R
R
Y
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
A
R
R
Y
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Darryl sounds like this:
