Meaning not yet researched.
Darlene: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 108 in 2025. Its best rank was #49 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #49 in 1958; #1,847 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darlene in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,847 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #49.
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Darlene: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 108 girls in 2025. Peak: #49 in 1958 · most girls in one year: 8,278 (1958).
In 2025, 108 US girls were named Darlene, making it the 1,847th most common girls’ name of the year, down 67 places from #1,780 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 113 girls named Darlene in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #49, reached in 1958. That year also had the most girls given the name: 8,278. For comparison, it was #1,439 in 2015 and #79 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darlene in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 5 babies. In all, 205,546 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 62,024 babies named Darlene.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,196 US girls were named Darlene; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 146. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,882 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Darlene ranked highest in California in 2025, at #892 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Darla (43,694 babies since 1880), Darleen (8,332 babies since 1880), Darline (5,050 babies since 1880) and Darlyn (2,097 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Darlena, Darlyne and Darlin are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Darry and Lena.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Darlena (1,536), Darlyne (1,414), Darlin (936), Darlean (884), Darlynn (587), Darleene (193), Darlen (184), Darlina (149), Darliene (36), Darlenne (34), Darlane (30), Darleane (15), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 32 | #892 | #551 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,554 | #1,562 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,581 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 2021 | 103 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 2019 | 122 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 2017 | 146 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 2016 | 144 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 2015 | 160 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 2014 | 171 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 2013 | 187 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 2012 | 217 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 2011 | 196 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 2010 | 208 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 2009 | 215 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 2008 | 236 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 2007 | 223 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 2006 | 244 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 2005 | 225 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 2004 | 236 | #999 | — | — |
| 2003 | 203 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 2002 | 251 | #894 | — | — |
| 2001 | 266 | #857 | — | — |
| 2000 | 273 | #826 | — | — |
| 1999 | 224 | #937 | — | — |
| 1998 | 256 | #832 | — | — |
| 1997 | 249 | #831 | — | — |
| 1996 | 283 | #746 | — | — |
| 1995 | 272 | #750 | — | — |
| 1994 | 344 | #636 | — | — |
| 1993 | 370 | #617 | — | — |
| 1992 | 378 | #602 | — | — |
| 1991 | 466 | #506 | — | — |
| 1990 | 506 | #483 | — | — |
| 1989 | 477 | #493 | 7 | #6,364 |
| 1988 | 482 | #468 | — | — |
| 1987 | 441 | #491 | — | — |
| 1986 | 451 | #477 | — | — |
| 1985 | 471 | #456 | — | — |
| 1984 | 459 | #452 | — | — |
| 1983 | 527 | #408 | — | — |
| 1982 | 584 | #396 | — | — |
| 1981 | 639 | #368 | — | — |
| 1980 | 653 | #362 | — | — |
| 1979 | 667 | #348 | — | — |
| 1978 | 718 | #319 | — | — |
| 1977 | 772 | #308 | — | — |
| 1976 | 827 | #279 | 5 | #5,788 |
| 1975 | 905 | #265 | 10 | #3,490 |
| 1974 | 1,019 | #251 | — | — |
| 1973 | 1,161 | #216 | 6 | #4,621 |
| 1972 | 1,416 | #199 | 9 | #3,408 |
| 1971 | 1,824 | #170 | 7 | #4,061 |
| 1970 | 2,175 | #155 | 11 | #2,930 |
| 1969 | 2,460 | #137 | 6 | #4,043 |
| 1968 | 2,658 | #121 | 13 | #2,349 |
| 1967 | 3,069 | #111 | 15 | #2,048 |
| 1966 | 3,728 | #94 | 14 | #2,155 |
| 1965 | 4,356 | #83 | 21 | #1,732 |
| 1964 | 5,175 | #80 | 20 | #1,802 |
| 1963 | 5,153 | #85 | 12 | #2,446 |
| 1962 | 5,107 | #88 | 15 | #2,133 |
| 1961 | 5,728 | #80 | 17 | #2,015 |
| 1960 | 6,093 | #75 | 17 | #1,985 |
| 1959 | 6,876 | #66 | 21 | #1,765 |
| 1958 | 8,278 | #49 | 29 | #1,452 |
| 1957 | 7,784 | #57 | 14 | #2,209 |
| 1956 | 6,919 | #71 | 19 | #1,844 |
| 1955 | 5,641 | #76 | 10 | #2,612 |
| 1954 | 5,510 | #76 | 10 | #2,625 |
| 1953 | 5,591 | #75 | 10 | #2,573 |
| 1952 | 5,427 | #77 | 8 | #2,922 |
| 1951 | 5,030 | #79 | 6 | #3,422 |
| 1950 | 4,830 | #79 | 11 | #2,343 |
| 1949 | 4,799 | #75 | 9 | #2,656 |
| 1948 | 4,692 | #77 | 8 | #2,830 |
| 1947 | 5,255 | #71 | 14 | #2,096 |
| 1946 | 4,662 | #71 | 14 | #1,970 |
| 1945 | 3,626 | #71 | 18 | #1,591 |
| 1944 | 3,532 | #76 | 13 | #2,012 |
| 1943 | 3,774 | #73 | 12 | #2,200 |
| 1942 | 3,517 | #78 | 18 | #1,691 |
| 1941 | 3,344 | #76 | 19 | #1,598 |
| 1940 | 3,120 | #79 | 15 | #1,819 |
| 1939 | 3,287 | #75 | 12 | #2,086 |
| 1938 | 3,321 | #76 | 14 | #1,917 |
| 1937 | 3,285 | #72 | 16 | #1,773 |
| 1936 | 2,962 | #83 | 6 | #3,231 |
| 1935 | 2,703 | #91 | 7 | #3,019 |
| 1934 | 2,605 | #90 | 17 | #1,736 |
| 1933 | 2,408 | #96 | 10 | #2,406 |
| 1932 | 2,020 | #122 | 7 | #3,146 |
| 1931 | 1,822 | #128 | 11 | #2,354 |
| 1930 | 1,543 | #141 | 9 | #2,822 |
| 1929 | 1,302 | #160 | — | — |
| 1928 | 1,186 | #176 | 7 | #3,432 |
| 1927 | 1,109 | #185 | 5 | #4,332 |
| 1926 | 875 | #212 | — | — |
| 1925 | 741 | #241 | — | — |
| 1924 | 638 | #260 | — | — |
| 1923 | 493 | #291 | — | — |
| 1922 | 423 | #315 | — | — |
| 1921 | 384 | #336 | — | — |
| 1920 | 275 | #398 | — | — |
| 1919 | 229 | #435 | — | — |
| 1918 | 181 | #507 | — | — |
| 1917 | 170 | #507 | — | — |
| 1916 | 131 | #587 | — | — |
| 1915 | 89 | #707 | — | — |
| 1914 | 81 | #643 | — | — |
| 1913 | 50 | #743 | — | — |
| 1912 | 30 | #927 | — | — |
| 1911 | 20 | #988 | — | — |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1909 | 18 | #970 | — | — |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,637 | — | — |
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).