Daryl

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Daryl: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Daryl: Recorded since 1952, it reached #79 in 1962, and it stood at #619 in 2024.

6registrars recorded it
125times a registrar ranked it
73years from first to last
#79highest recorded position
21groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2007

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1112
1997	#1543
1998	#1823
1999	#3900
2002	#2868
2004	#3725
2007	#4294

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 52 of the 60 years from 1964 to 2023.

In 2024: #619 among boys in Scotland, #2921 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1952–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #100 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Highest recorded1952–1965
Highest recorded position: #79 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 1962 (recorded 1952–1965).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2921 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Daryl appears in 6 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, with 52 ranked years and 772 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, from 1952.

Daryl across 6 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Daryl's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#232 (1964)	#105 (1991)	#770 (2023)	52 of 60	772 (1964–2023)	47 (1991)
England and Wales · Boys	#257 (1996)	#257 (1996)	#2921 (2024)	29 of 29	578 (1996–2024)	111 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#124 (1997)	#124 (1997)	#319 (2018)	17 of 22	108 (1997–2018)	16 (1997)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#100 (1952)	#79 (1962)	#80 (1965)	13 of 14	961 (1952–1965)	91 (1962)
England and Wales · Girls	#1112 (1996)	#1112 (1996)	#4294 (2007)	7 of 12	53 (1996–2007)	17 (1996)
New Zealand · Boys	#92 (1964)	#89 (1965)	#95 (1971)	6 of 8	421 (1964–1971)	81 (1971)

Daryl by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Daryl in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	6	2 of 10	3
1970s	45	8 of 10	6
1980s	202	10 of 10	20
1990sbusiest	332	10 of 10	33
2000s	95	10 of 10	10
2010s	78	9 of 10	9
2020s	14	3 of 10	5

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 33 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Daryl appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1952 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #79 in New South Wales, Australia in 1963.

Daryl's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1799	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2165	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1398	18	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1804	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1327	19	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1617	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1909	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1859	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1706	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2023	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1280	16	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1377	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#760	29	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1053	17	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1077	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#883	19	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#691	26	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#621	28	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#490	40	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1543	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#369	62	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1112	17	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#257	111	High	Verified
1965	New South Wales, Australia	male	#80	79	Insufficient	Not yet available
1964	New South Wales, Australia	male	#95	63	Insufficient	Not yet available
1963	New South Wales, Australia	male	#79	86	Insufficient	Not yet available
1962	New South Wales, Australia	male	#79	91	Insufficient	Not yet available
1961	New South Wales, Australia	male	#82	87	Insufficient	Not yet available
1960	New South Wales, Australia	male	#89	72	Insufficient	Not yet available
1959	New South Wales, Australia	male	#89	72	Insufficient	Not yet available
1958	New South Wales, Australia	male	#85	79	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New South Wales, Australia	male	#88	79	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	male	#80	77	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	male	#88	67	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	male	#100	55	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	male	#100	54	Insufficient	Not yet available
1971	New Zealand	male	#95	81	High	Verified
1970	New Zealand	male	#92	79	High	Verified
1968	New Zealand	male	#95	64	High	Verified
1967	New Zealand	male	#97	62	High	Verified
1965	New Zealand	male	#89	68	High	Verified
1964	New Zealand	male	#92	67	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#319	5	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#271	6	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#273	6	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#262	6	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#328	4	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#276	5	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#238	6	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#265	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#219	6	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#263	4	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#220	5	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#192	7	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#244	4	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#158	10	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#163	10	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#124	16	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#556	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#547	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	7	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#421	8	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#325	13	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#317	13	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#336	12	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#490	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#373	10	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	6	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#368	10	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#374	8	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#295	10	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#343	7	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#244	11	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#337	6	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#183	18	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#226	10	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#223	9	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#161	19	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#179	13	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#133	32	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#143	28	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#129	34	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#115	39	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#122	38	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#121	39	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#105	47	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#110	43	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#135	28	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#128	32	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#122	37	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#146	22	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#181	12	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#156	18	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#145	24	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#176	14	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#228	8	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#241	7	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#245	7	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#231	7	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#253	6	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#265	5	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#251	6	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#238	7	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#304	3	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#250	3	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	male	#232	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1952 and 2024, ranked in 69 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #79, first reached in 1962.

It held a top-100 place in 17 years, 12 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 111 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1964, and 72 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Dasha · #677, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Antonio · #85, 72y
Carmen · #69, 70y
Diana · #66, 74y
Bryan · #64, 72y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Amira · #79, 50y
Grzegorz · #79, 60y
Beatrice · #80, 61y
Gayle · #80, 22y

Daryl was ranked #79 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 1962. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Daryl and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Daryl without appearing here.

Daryl moved ahead of

Grant Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3451 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2165 and #4001.
Brett Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3451 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2165 and #3449.
Courtney Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2023 and #2023 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1706 and #2507.
Ross Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2165 and #1366 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1799 and #2160.

Moved ahead of Daryl

Ivy Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1823 and #2165 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #1216.
Beau Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1823 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #1805.
Logan Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1823 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #1970.
Luca Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1823 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #1970.

Moved the opposite way to Daryl

Benjamin Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daryl went from #232 to #770 while Benjamin went from #139 to #71.
Conor Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daryl went from #232 to #770 while Conor went from #56 to #12.
Liam Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daryl went from #232 to #770 while Liam went from #54 to #8.
Luke Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daryl went from #232 to #770 while Luke went from #105 to #20.

Moved the same way as Daryl

Alfred Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daryl went from #232 to #770 and Alfred from #134 to #472.
Denis Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daryl went from #232 to #770 and Denis from #21 to #224.
Edward Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daryl went from #232 to #770 and Edward from #18 to #177.
Frank Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daryl went from #232 to #770 and Frank from #164 to #268.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1952 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #79 in New South Wales, Australia in 1963. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Daryl

Daryl at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Daryl across 6 official records

Daryl by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Daryl appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Daryl

Daryl and the names beside it

Daryl moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Daryl

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Moved the same way as Daryl

Daryl at a glance

Daryl across 6 official records

Daryl by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Daryl appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Daryl

Daryl and the names beside it

Daryl moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Daryl

Moved the opposite way to Daryl

Moved the same way as Daryl