Daren
Last seen for girls in 1994 at #13,430 · #3,181 for boys in 2025, 37 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1965 · 761 births
- Debut · boys
- 35 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 10,855since 1922
Daren over time
Rank among boys' names. Daren has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,181 | 37 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,835 | 45 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,228 | 37 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,184 | 25 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,297 | 35 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,497 | 31 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,496 | 32 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,893 | 41 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,249 | 35 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,111 | 37 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,966 | 39 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,299 | 57 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,461 | 50 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,292 | 56 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,849 | 76 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,898 | 75 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,762 | 86 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,692 | 90 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,496 | 106 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,627 | 88 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,674 | 80 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,502 | 89 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,578 | 80 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,459 | 87 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,337 | 97 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,241 | 107 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,477 | 77 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,392 | 83 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,027 | 124 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,246 | 89 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,187 | 95 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,075 | 108 |
| 1993 | — | #1,091 | 105 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,017 | 115 | |
| 1991 | — | #920 | 131 | |
| 1990 | — | #887 | 135 | |
| 1989 | — | #856 | 138 | |
| 1988 | — | #789 | 144 | |
| 1987 | — | #735 | 154 | |
| 1986 | — | #756 | 143 | |
| 1985 | — | #777 | 130 | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #624 | 186 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #687 | 156 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #673 | 169 |
| 1981 | — | #691 | 156 | |
| 1980 | — | #643 | 182 | |
| 1979 | — | #660 | 167 | |
| 1978 | — | #649 | 167 | |
| 1977 | — | #652 | 167 | |
| 1976 | — | #603 | 182 | |
| 1975 | — | #578 | 194 | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #526 | 228 |
| 1973 | — | #552 | 204 | |
| 1972 | — | #541 | 216 | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #469 | 301 |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 | #438 | 348 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #404 | 389 |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | #342 | 505 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | #312 | 565 |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 | #305 | 597 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | #271 | 761 |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | #450 | 314 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | #507 | 252 |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | #538 | 217 |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 | #570 | 190 |
| 1960 | #3,357 | 14 | #615 | 161 |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 | #817 | 87 |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 | #1,305 | 35 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | #1,250 | 39 |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | #1,886 | 18 |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 | #1,611 | 23 |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 | #1,762 | 19 |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | #1,765 | 19 |
| 1952 | — | #1,856 | 17 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,246 | 12 | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | #1,701 | 19 |
| 1949 | — | #2,225 | 12 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,703 | 19 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,850 | 17 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,143 | 12 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,743 | 7 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,633 | 8 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,212 | 6 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,368 | 10 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,076 | 8 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,155 | 8 | |
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| 1923 | — | #2,224 | 14 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,222 | 35 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Daren! It came in at #1,222, and was given to 35 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1924, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Daren is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#189 · 1 in 1,913
- Utah#281 · 1 in 2,425
- Iowa#296 · 1 in 3,831
- Washington#373 · 1 in 4,358
- Wisconsin#376 · 1 in 6,079
Best ever in a state: #93 in North Dakota, 1968.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #189 | 14 | 1 in 1,913 |
| Utah | #281 | 5 | 1 in 2,425 |
| Iowa | #296 | 5 | 1 in 3,831 |
| Washington | #373 | 5 | 1 in 4,358 |
| Wisconsin | #376 | 5 | 1 in 6,079 |
| Colorado | #382 | 5 | 1 in 3,622 |
| Louisiana | #441 | 8 | 1 in 3,905 |
| North Carolina | #485 | 6 | 1 in 6,934 |
| Indiana | #490 | 5 | 1 in 8,327 |
| Ohio | #495 | 9 | 1 in 9,042 |
| California | #505 | 24 | 1 in 6,256 |
| Georgia | #512 | 6 | 1 in 6,755 |
| Michigan | #515 | 8 | 1 in 8,612 |
| New Jersey | #556 | 5 | 1 in 9,178 |
| Florida | #596 | 6 | 1 in 8,415 |
| New York | #603 | 13 | 1 in 9,375 |
| Illinois | #606 | 9 | 1 in 9,193 |
| Pennsylvania | #622 | 5 | 1 in 15,833 |
| Texas | #776 | 9 | 1 in 11,822 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Daren
- 346 spots since 2024 (#2,835 → #3,181)
- 316 spots since 2020 (#3,497 → #3,181)
- 215 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #3,181)
- Biggest jump: 488 spots in 1959 (#1,305 → #817)
- Biggest drop: 153 spots in 1985 (#624 → #777)
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 1965 at #271 (761 births)
- Births halved by 1970, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 33 yrs · run 1959–1991
- Highest: 1 in 2,444 boys born in 1965 were named Daren (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 46,164 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 36.4% of all boys named Daren (3,951) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 77 | #1,222 (1922) | #2,836 |
| 1930s | 31 | #2,368 (1933) | #3,295 |
| 1940s | 96 | #1,703 (1948) | #2,701 |
| 1950s | 288 | #817 (1959) | #1,620 |
| 1960s | 3,951 | #271 (1965) | #431 |
| 1970s | 2,174 | #438 (1970) | #567 |
| 1980s | 1,558 | #624 (1984) | #723 |
| 1990s | 1,062 | #887 (1990) | #1,132 |
| 2000s | 910 | #1,241 (2000) | #1,537 |
| 2010s | 498 | #1,849 (2011) | #2,651 |
| 2020s | 210 | #2,835 (2024) | #3,370 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Daren in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 7,507 of them was named Daren, which outranked 90.6% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.