Meaning not yet researched.
Darlyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,629 in 1946.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,629 in 1946; #4,379 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darlyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,379 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1946, at #1,629.
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Darlyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,629 in 1946 · most girls in one year: 61 (2021).
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Darlyn, making it the 4,379th most common girls’ name of the year, down 153 places from #4,226 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 34 girls named Darlyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,629, reached in 1946. The most girls given the name in a single year was 61, in 2021. For comparison, it was #5,703 in 2015 and #1,874 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darlyn in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1926 with 7 babies. In all, 2,097 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 389 babies named Darlyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 428 US girls were named Darlyn; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Darlene (205,546 babies since 1880), Darleen (8,332 babies since 1880) and Darline (5,050 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Darrlyn 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: Darrlyn (22).
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 Darlyn 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 | 32 | #4,379 | — | — |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,226 | — | — |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,233 | — | — |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,489 | — | — |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,792 | — | — |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,458 | 7 | #9,799 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,184 | — | — |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,801 | 5 | #12,596 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,182 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,703 | — | — |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,202 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,447 | — | — |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,064 | — | — |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,365 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,890 | — | — |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,599 | — | — |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,998 | — | — |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,187 | 9 | #8,146 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,864 | — | — |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,843 | — | — |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,640 | — | — |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,527 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,050 | — | — |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,906 | 6 | #9,346 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,258 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,415 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,509 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,112 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,734 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,506 | — | — |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,270 | — | — |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,960 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,105 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,579 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,250 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,360 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,253 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,125 | — | — |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,989 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,229 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,465 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,559 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,569 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,237 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,795 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,694 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,465 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,331 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,868 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,711 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,539 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,131 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,808 | — | — |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,372 | — | — |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,133 | 6 | #3,694 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,204 | — | — |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,319 | — | — |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,613 | — | — |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,550 | — | — |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,716 | — | — |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,856 | — | — |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,482 | — | — |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,172 | — | — |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,100 | — | — |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,812 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,869 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,968 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,964 | — | — |
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).