Daryle

Where Daryle comes from

Daryle hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,981 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1941
    Daryle Lamonica born
    American football player
  3. 1970
    Peak, #695
    142 babies named Daryle — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1971
    Daryle Singletary born
    American singer
  5. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #960.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Daryle Singletary · American singer, 1971–2018
  • Daryle Lamonica · American football player, 1941–2022
  • Daryle Ward · American baseball player, born 1975
  • Daryle Lamont Jenkins · American activist, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.