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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Darryl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Darryl” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Darryl” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Darryl” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Darryl” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Darryl” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Darryl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Darryl” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1918 8 0.000003685 8 -100%
1919 7 0.000003317 7 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1924 12 0.000005039 12 -100%
1925 16 0.000006857 16 -100%
1926 16 0.000006969 16 -100%
1927 21 0.000009054 21 -100%
1928 15 0.000006634 15 -100%
1929 23 0.000010492 23 -100%
1930 20 0.000008996 20 -100%
1931 18 0.000008554 18 -100%
1932 45 0.000021314 45 -100%
1933 71 0.00003551 71 -100%
1934 97 0.000046706 97 -100%
1935 135 0.000064596 135 -100%
1936 187 0.000090009 6 181 -94%
1937 223 0.000104662 223 -100%
1938 355 0.000160447 14 341 -92%
1939 435 0.000197418 8 427 -96%
1940 412 0.000178922 7 405 -97%
1941 417 0.000171152 417 -100%
1942 479 0.000175341 11 468 -95%
1943 413 0.000146321 13 400 -94%
1944 437 0.000162449 17 420 -92%
1945 484 0.000182441 14 470 -94%
1946 665 0.000208118 15 650 -95%
1947 852 0.000236514 26 826 -94%
1948 850 0.000246197 16 834 -96%
1949 890 0.000255397 32 858 -93%
1950 1024 0.000292291 13 1011 -97%
1951 1094 0.000296981 20 1074 -96%
1952 1126 0.000296471 26 1100 -95%
1953 1291 0.000335008 23 1268 -96%
1954 1357 0.000340894 26 1331 -96%
1955 1451 0.000361388 26 1425 -96%
1956 1512 0.00036672 30 1482 -96%
1957 1818 0.000432636 20 1798 -98%
1958 1843 0.000445826 24 1819 -97%
1959 2802 0.000673883 24 2778 -98%
1960 4479 0.001078286 45 4434 -98%
1961 5177 0.001249788 44 5133 -98%
1962 5006 0.00124053 38 4968 -98%
1963 5059 0.001278106 47 5012 -98%
1964 4456 0.001146207 35 4421 -98%
1965 4964 0.00136921 38 4926 -98%
1966 3858 0.001110007 41 3817 -98%
1967 2856 0.000841263 30 2826 -98%
1968 2089 0.000618338 22 2067 -98%
1969 1606 0.000462115 13 1593 -98%
1970 1381 0.000382918 14 1367 -98%
1971 1074 0.000312905 10 1064 -98%
1972 912 0.000290169 12 900 -97%
1973 794 0.000263185 9 785 -98%
1974 715 0.000235197 7 708 -98%
1975 684 0.000226536 10 674 -97%
1976 711 0.000234321 6 705 -98%
1977 701 0.000220684 7 694 -98%
1978 741 0.000233469 14 727 -96%
1979 770 0.00023144 9 761 -98%
1980 856 0.000248512 8 848 -98%
1981 951 0.000274905 11 940 -98%
1982 1001 0.000285351 14 987 -97%
1983 989 0.000285563 15 974 -97%
1984 1089 0.000312146 11 1078 -98%
1985 1146 0.000321088 19 1127 -97%
1986 1093 0.000307275 18 1075 -97%
1987 1105 0.000306467 29 1076 -95%
1988 1091 0.00029526 12 1079 -98%
1989 1145 0.000297832 15 1130 -97%
1990 1067 0.000269957 13 1054 -98%
1991 1010 0.000259289 9 1001 -98%
1992 805 0.000209566 12 793 -97%
1993 721 0.000191233 17 704 -95%
1994 642 0.00017269 10 632 -97%
1995 549 0.000149912 11 538 -96%
1996 532 0.000145866 10 522 -96%
1997 495 0.000136524 7 488 -97%
1998 428 0.000116361 8 420 -96%
1999 400 0.000108288 9 391 -95%
2000 384 0.00010159 384 -100%
2001 354 0.000094567 8 346 -95%
2002 332 0.000088811 332 -100%
2003 281 0.000073902 281 -100%
2004 277 0.000072496 277 -100%
2005 260 0.000067623 260 -100%
2006 271 0.0000685 271 -100%
2007 242 0.000060535 242 -100%
2008 293 0.000074542 293 -100%
2009 235 0.000061516 235 -100%
2010 213 0.000057634 213 -100%
2011 215 0.000058779 6 209 -94%
2012 213 0.000058239 213 -100%
2013 192 0.000052665 192 -100%
2014 178 0.000048025 178 -100%
2015 192 0.000051879 192 -100%
2016 184 0.000050154 184 -100%
2017 138 0.000038588 138 -100%
2018 136 0.000038681 136 -100%
2019 133 0.000038318 133 -100%
2020 115 0.000034425 115 -100%
2021 102 0.000030107 102 -100%
2022 103 0.000030445 103 -100%
2023 89 0.000026879 89 -100%
2024 91 0.00002734 91 -100%

Explore other names

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