Meaning not yet researched.
Daren: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #271 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #271 in 1965; #3,197 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Daren in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,197 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #271.
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Daren: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #271 in 1965 · most boys in one year: 761 (1965).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Daren, making it the 3,197th most common boys’ name of the year, down 358 places from #2,839 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 45 boys named Daren in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #271, reached in 1965. That year also had the most boys given the name: 761. For comparison, it was #2,977 in 2015 and #1,711 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Daren in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 35 babies. In all, 11,049 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 4,036 babies named Daren.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 355 US boys were named Daren; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Darren (104,506 babies since 1880), Darin (32,910 babies since 1880), Darrin (29,747 babies since 1880) and Darian (23,297 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Daren in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 37 | #3,197 |
| 2024 | — | — | 45 | #2,839 |
| 2023 | — | — | 37 | #3,241 |
| 2022 | — | — | 25 | #4,206 |
| 2021 | — | — | 35 | #3,313 |
| 2020 | — | — | 31 | #3,507 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,508 |
| 2018 | — | — | 41 | #2,905 |
| 2017 | — | — | 35 | #3,260 |
| 2016 | — | — | 37 | #3,121 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #2,977 |
| 2014 | — | — | 57 | #2,303 |
| 2013 | — | — | 50 | #2,469 |
| 2012 | — | — | 56 | #2,300 |
| 2011 | — | — | 76 | #1,852 |
| 2010 | — | — | 75 | #1,902 |
| 2009 | — | — | 86 | #1,762 |
| 2008 | — | — | 90 | #1,694 |
| 2007 | — | — | 106 | #1,497 |
| 2006 | — | — | 88 | #1,629 |
| 2005 | — | — | 80 | #1,677 |
| 2004 | — | — | 89 | #1,506 |
| 2003 | — | — | 80 | #1,581 |
| 2002 | — | — | 87 | #1,461 |
| 2001 | — | — | 97 | #1,340 |
| 2000 | — | — | 107 | #1,243 |
| 1999 | — | — | 77 | #1,478 |
| 1998 | — | — | 83 | #1,392 |
| 1997 | — | — | 124 | #1,030 |
| 1996 | — | — | 89 | #1,248 |
| 1995 | — | — | 95 | #1,187 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,950 | 108 | #1,076 |
| 1993 | — | — | 105 | #1,091 |
| 1992 | — | — | 115 | #1,018 |
| 1991 | — | — | 131 | #922 |
| 1990 | — | — | 135 | #887 |
| 1989 | — | — | 138 | #856 |
| 1988 | — | — | 144 | #789 |
| 1987 | — | — | 154 | #735 |
| 1986 | — | — | 143 | #758 |
| 1985 | — | — | 130 | #777 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,785 | 186 | #624 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,643 | 156 | #689 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,427 | 169 | #673 |
| 1981 | — | — | 156 | #692 |
| 1980 | — | — | 182 | #643 |
| 1979 | — | — | 167 | #660 |
| 1978 | — | — | 167 | #649 |
| 1977 | — | — | 167 | #654 |
| 1976 | — | — | 182 | #603 |
| 1975 | — | — | 194 | #578 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,910 | 228 | #526 |
| 1973 | — | — | 204 | #553 |
| 1972 | — | — | 216 | #541 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,581 | 301 | #469 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,552 | 348 | #438 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,698 | 389 | #404 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,852 | 505 | #342 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,002 | 565 | #312 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,009 | 597 | #305 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,396 | 761 | #271 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,099 | 314 | #450 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,606 | 252 | #507 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,956 | 217 | #538 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,609 | 190 | #570 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,385 | 161 | #615 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,136 | 87 | #818 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,242 | 35 | #1,308 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,525 | 39 | #1,253 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,136 | 18 | #1,899 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,133 | 23 | #1,619 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,761 | 19 | #1,774 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,673 | 19 | #1,777 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,876 |
| 1951 | — | — | 12 | #2,274 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,463 | 19 | #1,711 |
| 1949 | — | — | 12 | #2,251 |
| 1948 | — | — | 19 | #1,723 |
| 1947 | — | — | 17 | #1,866 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,178 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,802 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,679 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,652 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,289 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,616 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,559 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,637 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,634 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,366 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,405 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,895 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,644 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,135 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,869 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,204 |
| 1923 | — | — | 14 | #2,252 |
| 1922 | — | — | 35 | #1,226 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).