Daryl is a variant of Darrell, an English surname that came over with the Normans as d'Airelle and means "from Airelle", a village in Normandy. The musician Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates and the crossbow-wielding Daryl Dixon of The Walking Dead are its best-known bearers. Daryl was a top 100 name in the 1960s; it ranked number 735 in 2000, has been outside the top 1000 since the mid-2010s and stands at number 1529 in 2025.