Daryll
Masculine · “from Airelle”
Daryll is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,697 boys against 17 girls since 1880.
The doubled letter has moved from the middle of the name to the end. Darrell doubles the r; Darryl doubles both; this spelling doubles neither in the middle and doubles the l instead, which is the one position where an English reader will not notice it. The sound is untouched in every case.
How old is the name Daryll?
Daryll first appears in US birth records in 1934 — 91 years ago. The typical Daryll alive today was born around 1967, making them about 58 years old. About 1,400 people named Daryll are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Daryll most popular?
Daryll peaked in 1960, reaching #1058 nationally. See the whole 1960 chart.
Where it comes from
From d'Airelle to Daryll
The story of Daryll
The whole class of these names is a French preposition welded onto a village. Disney is the clearest case anybody will recognize: it is d'Isigny, from Isigny-sur-Mer in Normandy, and a family that crossed with the Conquest carried the place with them for nine hundred years until it ended up on a film studio in California. Devereux, Darcy, Danvers and Disney all work the same way, and so does this one — a small Norman settlement, a preposition, and a family that never went back.
Meaning
from Airelle
A Norman place name carried into England as a surname and turned into a first name much later. The place is what the name means; there is no separate sense underneath it.
How the name formed
- d'Airelle
- Darrell
- Daryll
Pronouncing Daryll
DA-rul
Two syllables with the stress at the front. Every spelling of the name is said the same way, so the differences are entirely visual.
Nicknames for Daryll
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1934
- Most boys named
- 196053 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1058reached in 1960
- Change vs 2019
- 0.0%7 in 2023, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Darylls among us
people named Daryll are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Daryll sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is concrete: a real place that can be found on a map.
- The sound is completely settled and never needs repeating.
- It works across the sexes without straining for it.
- At least four spellings compete and this one gets corrected.
- The spelling is recorded for a few girls, but nearly every child with it is a boy.
- It is closely tied to the middle decades of the last century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Darylls are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Daryll are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Daryll in 2025?
- Daryll is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Daryll with classmates?
- Daryll will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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