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How popular is “Daryl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Daryl” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Daryl” 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 “Daryl” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Daryl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Daryl” 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
1912 13 0.000013157 13 -100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1914 22 0.000015533 22 -100%
1915 36 0.000019646 6 30 -67%
1916 25 0.000012924 9 16 -28%
1917 40 0.000019933 8 32 -60%
1918 35 0.000016121 35 -100%
1919 39 0.000018481 39 -100%
1920 56 0.00002475 5 51 -82%
1921 67 0.0000287 67 -100%
1922 205 0.000089553 6 199 -94%
1923 101 0.000043866 6 95 -88%
1924 112 0.000047027 10 102 -82%
1925 105 0.000045001 10 95 -81%
1926 139 0.000060543 13 126 -81%
1927 124 0.000053463 7 117 -89%
1928 113 0.000049979 7 106 -88%
1929 131 0.000059758 9 122 -86%
1930 152 0.000068367 18 134 -76%
1931 133 0.000063201 9 124 -86%
1932 165 0.000078151 11 154 -87%
1933 186 0.000093026 14 172 -85%
1934 171 0.000082338 13 158 -85%
1935 158 0.000075602 24 134 -70%
1936 234 0.000112631 27 207 -77%
1937 265 0.000124374 36 229 -73%
1938 279 0.000126097 37 242 -73%
1939 336 0.000152489 48 288 -71%
1940 382 0.000165893 49 333 -74%
1941 380 0.000155966 49 331 -74%
1942 385 0.000140932 49 336 -75%
1943 410 0.000145258 49 361 -76%
1944 425 0.000157988 55 370 -74%
1945 466 0.000175656 74 392 -68%
1946 679 0.000212499 79 600 -77%
1947 847 0.000235126 112 735 -74%
1948 989 0.000286458 134 855 -73%
1949 1132 0.000324842 155 977 -73%
1950 1141 0.000325688 165 976 -71%
1951 1275 0.000346116 158 1117 -75%
1952 1324 0.000348604 141 1183 -79%
1953 1472 0.000381976 118 1354 -84%
1954 1597 0.000401185 128 1469 -84%
1955 1681 0.000418672 146 1535 -83%
1956 1968 0.000477318 136 1832 -86%
1957 1809 0.000430495 116 1693 -87%
1958 1890 0.000457195 103 1787 -89%
1959 1665 0.000400434 106 1559 -87%
1960 1750 0.000421299 97 1653 -89%
1961 1761 0.000425126 79 1682 -91%
1962 1638 0.000405911 62 1576 -92%
1963 1679 0.000424183 69 1610 -92%
1964 1606 0.000413108 77 1529 -90%
1965 1472 0.000406019 43 1429 -94%
1966 1391 0.000400212 61 1330 -91%
1967 1388 0.000408849 47 1341 -93%
1968 1568 0.000464123 55 1513 -93%
1969 1661 0.000477941 56 1605 -93%
1970 1829 0.000507138 36 1793 -96%
1971 1630 0.000474893 37 1593 -95%
1972 1230 0.000391347 30 1200 -95%
1973 1062 0.000352018 34 1028 -94%
1974 974 0.000320395 20 954 -96%
1975 865 0.000286481 25 840 -94%
1976 911 0.000300234 15 896 -97%
1977 1016 0.000319849 16 1000 -97%
1978 860 0.000270963 21 839 -95%
1979 893 0.00026841 22 871 -95%
1980 780 0.000226448 17 763 -96%
1981 784 0.000226631 14 770 -96%
1982 740 0.000210949 21 719 -94%
1983 671 0.000193744 15 656 -96%
1984 663 0.000190039 30 633 -91%
1985 768 0.00021518 53 715 -86%
1986 765 0.000215064 76 689 -80%
1987 754 0.000209118 75 679 -80%
1988 726 0.000196479 77 649 -79%
1989 624 0.000162312 57 567 -82%
1990 572 0.000144719 73 499 -74%
1991 542 0.000139143 54 488 -80%
1992 474 0.000123397 52 422 -78%
1993 462 0.000122537 53 409 -77%
1994 405 0.00010894 51 354 -75%
1995 358 0.000097757 48 310 -73%
1996 332 0.000091029 41 291 -75%
1997 323 0.000089085 30 293 -81%
1998 275 0.000074765 33 242 -76%
1999 236 0.00006389 25 211 -79%
2000 256 0.000067727 23 233 -82%
2001 216 0.000057702 17 199 -84%
2002 192 0.00005136 11 181 -89%
2003 186 0.000048918 11 175 -88%
2004 172 0.000045015 11 161 -87%
2005 195 0.000050717 10 185 -90%
2006 192 0.000048532 14 178 -85%
2007 174 0.000043525 9 165 -90%
2008 170 0.00004325 7 163 -92%
2009 144 0.000037695 8 136 -89%
2010 118 0.000031929 7 111 -88%
2011 115 0.00003144 11 104 -81%
2012 105 0.000028709 6 99 -89%
2013 143 0.000039225 5 138 -93%
2014 139 0.000037503 139 -100%
2015 168 0.000045394 8 160 -90%
2016 142 0.000038706 142 -100%
2017 139 0.000038868 9 130 -87%
2018 99 0.000028158 99 -100%
2019 74 0.00002132 74 -100%
2020 95 0.000028438 95 -100%
2021 92 0.000027155 92 -100%
2022 78 0.000023056 78 -100%
2023 75 0.00002265 75 -100%
2024 77 0.000023134 77 -100%

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