Meaning not yet researched.
Darla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 275 in 2025. Its best rank was #165 in 1963.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #165 in 1963; #941 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#941 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1963, at #165.
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Darla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 275 girls in 2025. Peak: #165 in 1963 · most girls in one year: 2,391 (1963).
In 2025, 275 US girls were named Darla, making it the 941st most common girls’ name of the year, up 84 places from #1,025 in 2024. That is 29 more than the 246 girls named Darla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #165, reached in 1963. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,391. For comparison, it was #1,679 in 2015 and #323 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darla in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 7 babies. In all, 43,694 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 16,356 babies named Darla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,959 US girls were named Darla; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 275. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,845 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Darla ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #544 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Darlene (205,546 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Darlah 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: Darlah (68).
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 Darla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 5 | #544 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #561 | — |
| Colorado | 9 | #600 | — |
| California | 50 | #629 | #790 |
| Indiana | 8 | #746 | — |
| Texas | 36 | #823 | #1,561 |
| Missouri | 6 | #837 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #840 | #1,139 |
| Alabama | 5 | #852 | — |
| Florida | 18 | #883 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #952 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #967 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,038 | — |
| New York | 13 | #1,100 | #1,817 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,105 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,174 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,228 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,313 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,460 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 275 | #941 | — | — |
| 2024 | 246 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 2023 | 199 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 2022 | 202 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 2021 | 190 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 2020 | 155 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 2019 | 165 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 2018 | 181 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 2017 | 161 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 2016 | 185 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 2015 | 127 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 2014 | 161 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 2013 | 151 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 2012 | 174 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 2011 | 143 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 2010 | 140 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 2009 | 126 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 2004 | 109 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 2000 | 97 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1999 | 86 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1997 | 99 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1996 | 105 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1995 | 120 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1994 | 67 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1992 | 88 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 1991 | 114 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 1990 | 120 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1989 | 117 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1988 | 148 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 1987 | 142 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1986 | 136 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1985 | 176 | #903 | — | — |
| 1984 | 197 | #806 | — | — |
| 1983 | 219 | #746 | — | — |
| 1982 | 259 | #680 | — | — |
| 1981 | 287 | #628 | — | — |
| 1980 | 315 | #587 | — | — |
| 1979 | 313 | #583 | — | — |
| 1978 | 333 | #538 | — | — |
| 1977 | 341 | #532 | — | — |
| 1976 | 382 | #481 | — | — |
| 1975 | 409 | #460 | — | — |
| 1974 | 493 | #407 | — | — |
| 1973 | 559 | #375 | — | — |
| 1972 | 692 | #331 | — | — |
| 1971 | 895 | #305 | — | — |
| 1970 | 965 | #299 | 5 | #4,860 |
| 1969 | 1,058 | #271 | 5 | #4,528 |
| 1968 | 1,152 | #240 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,265 | #230 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,445 | #211 | — | — |
| 1965 | 1,581 | #208 | 5 | #4,020 |
| 1964 | 2,044 | #185 | — | — |
| 1963 | 2,391 | #165 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,964 | #190 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,717 | #203 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,723 | #202 | 6 | #3,744 |
| 1959 | 1,672 | #203 | 6 | #3,689 |
| 1958 | 1,355 | #223 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,334 | #230 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,209 | #237 | — | — |
| 1955 | 877 | #292 | — | — |
| 1954 | 700 | #318 | — | — |
| 1953 | 645 | #324 | — | — |
| 1952 | 623 | #329 | — | — |
| 1951 | 617 | #319 | — | — |
| 1950 | 567 | #323 | — | — |
| 1949 | 502 | #345 | — | — |
| 1948 | 450 | #372 | — | — |
| 1947 | 528 | #347 | — | — |
| 1946 | 592 | #303 | — | — |
| 1945 | 303 | #408 | — | — |
| 1944 | 318 | #397 | — | — |
| 1943 | 365 | #378 | — | — |
| 1942 | 409 | #346 | — | — |
| 1941 | 406 | #326 | — | — |
| 1940 | 356 | #339 | — | — |
| 1939 | 318 | #368 | — | — |
| 1938 | 244 | #428 | — | — |
| 1937 | 185 | #480 | — | — |
| 1936 | 246 | #410 | — | — |
| 1935 | 98 | #672 | — | — |
| 1934 | 29 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,673 | — | — |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,110 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,090 | — | — |
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).