Meaning & Origin
A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Darrell.
Daryl is a boy's and girl's baby name of Old French origin, a variant of Darrell, from the Norman French surname d'Airelle, meaning 'from Airelle' (a village in Calvados, Normandy). The -yl spelling has been popularized by figures like musician Daryl Hall and The Walking Dead's Daryl Dixon.
With nearly 63,000 U.S. births, Daryl has had a genuinely long American run — it is one of those quiet, unpretentious names that simply gets the job done, carrying Norman-French heritage in a completely American package.