Meaning not yet researched.
Darin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #123 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #123 in 1965; #3,595 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,595 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #123.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Darin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #123 in 1965 · most boys in one year: 2,614 (1965).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Darin, making it the 3,595th most common boys’ name of the year, down 58 places from #3,537 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 32 boys named Darin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #123, reached in 1965. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,614. For comparison, it was #2,038 in 2015 and #3,799 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darin in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 5 babies. In all, 32,910 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 13,855 babies named Darin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 438 US boys were named Darin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Darren (104,506 babies since 1880), Darrin (29,747 babies since 1880), Darian (23,297 babies since 1880) and Darien (12,826 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dariyon, Dariann and Dariane are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dariyon (191), Dariann (141), Dariane (126), Dareion (109), Dariyan (47), Darine (20), Daryian (17), Dairion (13), Dairian (10), Daerion (6), Dareian (5), Darone (5).
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 Darin 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 | — | — | 31 | #3,595 |
| 2024 | — | — | 32 | #3,537 |
| 2023 | — | — | 37 | #3,242 |
| 2022 | — | — | 30 | #3,708 |
| 2021 | — | — | 43 | #2,872 |
| 2020 | — | — | 45 | #2,737 |
| 2019 | — | — | 55 | #2,433 |
| 2018 | — | — | 34 | #3,310 |
| 2017 | — | — | 61 | #2,195 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,886 | 70 | #2,029 |
| 2015 | — | — | 70 | #2,038 |
| 2014 | — | — | 77 | #1,892 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,198 | 80 | #1,797 |
| 2012 | — | — | 88 | #1,714 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,431 | 102 | #1,548 |
| 2010 | — | — | 106 | #1,526 |
| 2009 | — | — | 106 | #1,548 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,209 | 135 | #1,288 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,971 | 156 | #1,145 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,698 | 161 | #1,093 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,138 | 188 | #929 |
| 2004 | — | — | 171 | #978 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,303 | 231 | #764 |
| 2002 | — | — | 220 | #786 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,553 | 219 | #777 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,583 | 212 | #780 |
| 1999 | — | — | 241 | #696 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,699 | 201 | #779 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,273 | 236 | #683 |
| 1996 | — | — | 236 | #686 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,946 | 228 | #701 |
| 1994 | — | — | 258 | #648 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,896 | 259 | #643 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,131 | 293 | #602 |
| 1991 | — | — | 345 | #546 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,473 | 348 | #531 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,204 | 351 | #511 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,849 | 366 | #481 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,995 | 390 | #448 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,829 | 409 | #427 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,737 | 418 | #417 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,401 | 428 | #398 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,456 | 429 | #387 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,640 | 424 | #395 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,781 | 455 | #378 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,345 | 455 | #379 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,820 | 499 | #351 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,797 | 533 | #329 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,950 | 601 | #314 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,383 | 649 | #290 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,393 | 844 | #245 |
| 1974 | — | — | 1,037 | #211 |
| 1973 | — | — | 1,057 | #205 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,066 | 1,130 | #203 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,874 | 1,291 | #193 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,934 | 1,441 | #188 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,232 | 1,789 | #159 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,266 | 1,955 | #147 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,885 | 2,017 | #142 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,172 | 2,251 | #134 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,256 | 2,614 | #123 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,695 | 1,023 | #236 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,316 | 712 | #290 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,407 | 621 | #316 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,406 | 438 | #378 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,113 | 325 | #448 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,357 | 97 | #777 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,000 | 22 | #1,694 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #1,967 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,664 |
| 1955 | — | — | 13 | #2,238 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,942 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,199 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #2,921 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,799 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,793 |
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).