Daryl
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Darrell
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/daɹɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Daryl is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.4K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 2.4Kas Darryl
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Daryl itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #795 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 539 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270,000 named Darryl, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Darryl in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Darrell.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Daryl counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Darryl | 22 |
| US United States | #324 | 65,344as Darryl | 1 in 5.1K | 65K | Darryl | 539 |
| PH Philippines | #514 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Daryl | 144 |
| GB United Kingdom | #348 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 5 | Darryl | 238 |
| CA Canada | #273 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 2 | Darryl | 230 |
| AU Australia | #293 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 79 | Darryl | 216 |
| SG Singapore | #202 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Daryl | 124 |
| NZ New Zealand | #208 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 13 | Darryl | 123 |
| ES Spain | — | 239 | 1 in 209K | 239 | Daryl | 56 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Daryl is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Nombre masculino y femenino
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Daryl Dragonb. 1942USAmerican musician (1942–2019)
- Daryl Hallb. 1946USAmerican musician
- Daryl Hannahb. 1960USAmerican actress and director (born 1960)
- Daryl Haneyb. 1963USAmerican actor
- Daryl Mitchellb. 1965USAmerican actor and rapper
- Daryl Impeyb. 1984ZASouth African racing cyclist
- Daryl Janmaatb. 1989NLDutch association football player (born 1989)
- Daryl Sabarab. 1992USAmerican actor (born 1992)
- Daryl McCormackb. 1993IEIrish actor
- Kent Jonesb. 1993USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and rapper (born 1993)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 47K | #890 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.5K | #890 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 239 | #7,866 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 177 | #4,586 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 113 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1965 | 79 | #80 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1965 | 31 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 12 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1960 | 12 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1995 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1999 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Daryl mean, and where does it come from?
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Darrell. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Daryl a male or female name?
- Daryl is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Daryl?
- In the etymology graph, Darrell, Darryl and Darrel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Daryl?
- In Spain, the national register counted 239 people named Daryl, about 1 in 209 thousand residents.
- How common is Daryl compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Daryl is the 202nd most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Daryl?
- A machine transcription gives /daɹɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Daryl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 275 thousand people named Darryl in China, more than in any other country we hold.
What do you want to know about Daryl?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/darylThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Daryl” — the 202nd most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.