Daryn

Where Daryn comes from

Daryn 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.

Along the way
  1. 1958
    First appearance
    #3,944 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Peak, #716
    108 babies named Daryn — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,168.
  4. 1973
    Daryn Tufts born
    American actor
  5. 1982
    Daryn Colledge born
    player of American football
  6. 2024
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Daryn Colledge · player of American football, born 1982
  • Daryn Tufts · American actor, born 1973
  • Daryn Dupavillon · cricketer, born 1994
  • Daryn Okada · American cinematographer, born 1960
  • Daryn Hinton · actor, Businesswoman, born 1954

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.