Meaning not yet researched.
Darleen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #494 in 1943.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #494 in 1943; #9,607 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darleen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,607 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1943, at #494.
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Darleen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #494 in 1943 · most girls in one year: 231 (1958).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Darleen, making it the 9,607th most common girls’ name of the year, up 873 places from #10,480 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 9 girls named Darleen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #494, reached in 1943. The most girls given the name in a single year was 231, in 1958. For comparison, it was #7,724 in 2015 and #653 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darleen in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 8,332 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 1,842 babies named Darleen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 167 US girls were named Darleen; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Darlene (205,546 babies since 1880), Darline (5,050 babies since 1880) and Darlyn (2,097 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 Darleen 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 | 10 | #9,607 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,480 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,436 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,655 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,737 | — | — |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,080 | — | — |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,195 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,317 | — | — |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,645 | — | — |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,482 | — | — |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,724 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,400 | — | — |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,130 | — | — |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,866 | — | — |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,414 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,464 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,751 | — | — |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,476 | — | — |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,384 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,189 | — | — |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,608 | — | — |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,862 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,374 | — | — |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,953 | — | — |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,875 | — | — |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,688 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,948 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,798 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,946 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,817 | — | — |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,379 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,275 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,025 | — | — |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,568 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,728 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,274 | — | — |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,910 | — | — |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,922 | — | — |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,770 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,385 | — | — |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,438 | — | — |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,536 | — | — |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,724 | — | — |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,782 | — | — |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,939 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,027 | — | — |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,753 | — | — |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1973 | 56 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1971 | 76 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1969 | 95 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1968 | 84 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1967 | 114 | #952 | — | — |
| 1966 | 120 | #922 | — | — |
| 1965 | 132 | #871 | — | — |
| 1964 | 146 | #861 | — | — |
| 1963 | 132 | #915 | — | — |
| 1962 | 158 | #838 | — | — |
| 1961 | 185 | #771 | — | — |
| 1960 | 152 | #838 | — | — |
| 1959 | 185 | #748 | — | — |
| 1958 | 231 | #651 | — | — |
| 1957 | 193 | #719 | — | — |
| 1956 | 167 | #753 | — | — |
| 1955 | 151 | #784 | — | — |
| 1954 | 122 | #860 | — | — |
| 1953 | 146 | #756 | — | — |
| 1952 | 139 | #755 | — | — |
| 1951 | 162 | #686 | — | — |
| 1950 | 171 | #653 | — | — |
| 1949 | 200 | #585 | — | — |
| 1948 | 193 | #602 | — | — |
| 1947 | 208 | #590 | — | — |
| 1946 | 209 | #547 | — | — |
| 1945 | 169 | #565 | — | — |
| 1944 | 158 | #582 | — | — |
| 1943 | 227 | #494 | — | — |
| 1942 | 166 | #572 | — | — |
| 1941 | 177 | #524 | — | — |
| 1940 | 135 | #598 | — | — |
| 1939 | 150 | #546 | — | — |
| 1938 | 155 | #548 | — | — |
| 1937 | 119 | #621 | — | — |
| 1936 | 112 | #623 | — | — |
| 1935 | 99 | #669 | — | — |
| 1934 | 96 | #680 | — | — |
| 1933 | 110 | #620 | — | — |
| 1932 | 109 | #640 | — | — |
| 1931 | 107 | #644 | — | — |
| 1930 | 124 | #623 | — | — |
| 1929 | 112 | #657 | — | — |
| 1928 | 120 | #642 | — | — |
| 1927 | 125 | #645 | — | — |
| 1926 | 91 | #758 | — | — |
| 1925 | 102 | #729 | — | — |
| 1924 | 71 | #894 | — | — |
| 1923 | 59 | #968 | — | — |
| 1922 | 65 | #909 | — | — |
| 1921 | 38 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,510 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,281 | — | — |
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).