Darin
Last seen for girls in 2016 at #16,215 · #3,583 for boys in 2025, 31 births
Given to boys 98.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1965 · 2,614 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 32,546since 1948
Darin over time
Rank among boys' names. Darin has never cracked the top 100 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 | — | #3,583 | 31 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,524 | 32 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,228 | 37 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,691 | 30 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,862 | 43 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,728 | 45 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,421 | 55 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,301 | 34 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,186 | 61 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #2,028 | 70 |
| 2015 | — | #2,036 | 70 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,884 | 77 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #1,794 | 80 |
| 2012 | — | #1,711 | 88 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,544 | 102 |
| 2010 | — | #1,525 | 106 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,546 | 106 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #1,284 | 135 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #1,144 | 156 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #1,091 | 161 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #929 | 188 |
| 2004 | — | #977 | 171 | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #764 | 231 |
| 2002 | — | #784 | 220 | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #776 | 219 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #780 | 212 |
| 1999 | — | #696 | 241 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #777 | 201 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #683 | 236 |
| 1996 | — | #686 | 236 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #700 | 228 |
| 1994 | — | #648 | 258 | |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #643 | 259 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #601 | 293 |
| 1991 | — | #546 | 345 | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #530 | 348 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #511 | 351 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #481 | 366 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #448 | 390 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #427 | 409 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | #417 | 418 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | #398 | 428 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #387 | 429 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #395 | 424 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #378 | 455 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #379 | 455 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #351 | 499 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #328 | 533 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #314 | 601 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #290 | 649 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #245 | 844 |
| 1974 | — | #211 | 1,037 | |
| 1973 | — | #205 | 1,057 | |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #203 | 1,130 |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | #193 | 1,291 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | #188 | 1,441 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 | #159 | 1,789 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | #147 | 1,955 |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 | #142 | 2,017 |
| 1966 | #3,148 | 16 | #134 | 2,251 |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | #123 | 2,614 |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 | #236 | 1,023 |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 | #290 | 712 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | #316 | 621 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | #378 | 438 |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 | #448 | 325 |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 | #776 | 97 |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | #1,677 | 22 |
| 1957 | — | #1,952 | 17 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,628 | 10 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,219 | 13 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,875 | 8 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Darin! It came in at #3,668, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1951, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Darin is popular in 1959
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#371 · 1 in 5,245
- Michigan#484 · 1 in 12,059
- California#513 · 1 in 8,555
- Illinois#585 · 1 in 14,543
- Pennsylvania#618 · 1 in 24,347
Best ever in a state: #26 in South Dakota, 1967.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #371 | 6 | 1 in 5,245 |
| Michigan | #484 | 8 | 1 in 12,059 |
| California | #513 | 21 | 1 in 8,555 |
| Illinois | #585 | 8 | 1 in 14,543 |
| Pennsylvania | #618 | 5 | 1 in 24,347 |
| New York | #714 | 8 | 1 in 22,614 |
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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 Darin
- 59 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #3,583)
- 855 spots since 2020 (#2,728 → #3,583)
- 1,547 spots since 2015 (#2,036 → #3,583)
- Biggest jump: 901 spots in 1959 (#1,677 → #776)
- Biggest drop: 213 spots in 2004 (#764 → #977)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1965 at #123 (2,614 births)
- Births halved by 1971, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 47 yrs · run 1959–2005
- Highest: 1 in 712 boys born in 1965 were named Darin (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,099 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.2% of all boys named Darin (13,745) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,668 |
| 1950s | 184 | #776 (1959) | #2,531 |
| 1960s | 13,745 | #123 (1965) | #237 |
| 1970s | 9,082 | #188 (1970) | #253 |
| 1980s | 4,125 | #378 (1981) | #422 |
| 1990s | 2,645 | #530 (1990) | #651 |
| 2000s | 1,799 | #764 (2003) | #1,008 |
| 2010s | 743 | #1,525 (2010) | #2,043 |
| 2020s | 218 | #2,728 (2020) | #3,269 |
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.
Darin in 1959
Top girls' names in 1959
Top boys' names in 1959
More about 1959
girls
2,023,462 girls got a published name in 1959; 1 in 224,829 of them was named Darin, which outranked 40.3% of the 7,202 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,031Winda10
- #4,031Yola10
- #4,031Zada10
- #4,300Darin9
- #4,300Adair9
- #4,300Adrien9
- #4,300Aide9
- #4,625Adel8
- #4,625Adraine8
- #4,625Adriann8
Tied with 324 names at #4,300; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,134,518 boys got a published name in 1959; 1 in 22,005 of them was named Darin, which outranked 83.0% of the 4,572 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).