Meaning not yet researched.
Darren: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 187 in 2025. Its best rank was #52 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #52 in 1965; #1,135 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darren in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,135 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #52.
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Darren: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 187 boys in 2025. Peak: #52 in 1965 · most boys in one year: 5,938 (1965).
In 2025, 187 US boys were named Darren, making it the 1,135th most common boys’ name of the year, down 181 places from #954 in 2024. That is 53 fewer than the 240 boys named Darren in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #52, reached in 1965. That year also had the most boys given the name: 5,938. For comparison, it was #543 in 2015 and #2,345 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darren in 85 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 7 babies. In all, 104,506 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 35,247 babies named Darren.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,343 US boys were named Darren; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 528. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,134 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Darren ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #733 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Darrin (29,747 babies since 1880), Daren (11,049 babies since 1880), Darin (32,910 babies since 1880) and Darian (23,297 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Darryn, Dayron and Daryan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Darryn (1,772), Dayron (874), Daryan (839), Darran (778), Daran (600), Dareen (475), Dareon (448), Darreon (352), Daaron (309), Dairon (292), Dayrin (218), Daryon (166), 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.
No nicknames listed for Darren in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 5 | #733 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #791 | #534 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #803 | #421 |
| Maryland | 5 | #831 | #427 |
| Florida | 17 | #853 | #485 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #864 | #762 |
| Colorado | 5 | #880 | #819 |
| New York | 15 | #890 | #367 |
| California | 23 | #965 | #351 |
| Virginia | 6 | #996 | #678 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,053 | #776 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,162 | #582 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,244 | #674 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,318 | #468 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,504 | #656 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 187 | #1,135 |
| 2024 | — | — | 240 | #954 |
| 2023 | — | — | 224 | #978 |
| 2022 | — | — | 284 | #853 |
| 2021 | — | — | 305 | #803 |
| 2020 | — | — | 345 | #718 |
| 2019 | — | — | 374 | #684 |
| 2018 | — | — | 393 | #653 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,042 | 463 | #586 |
| 2016 | — | — | 528 | #548 |
| 2015 | — | — | 527 | #543 |
| 2014 | — | — | 569 | #494 |
| 2013 | — | — | 593 | #468 |
| 2012 | — | — | 667 | #423 |
| 2011 | — | — | 681 | #415 |
| 2010 | — | — | 695 | #407 |
| 2009 | — | — | 765 | #393 |
| 2008 | — | — | 799 | #384 |
| 2007 | — | — | 876 | #361 |
| 2006 | — | — | 824 | #361 |
| 2005 | — | — | 864 | #343 |
| 2004 | — | — | 891 | #337 |
| 2003 | — | — | 977 | #306 |
| 2002 | — | — | 969 | #302 |
| 2001 | — | — | 948 | #304 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,007 | #298 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,029 | #283 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,705 | 1,028 | #279 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,020 | #274 |
| 1996 | — | — | 1,140 | #253 |
| 1995 | — | — | 1,290 | #230 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,735 | 1,444 | #201 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,144 | 1,432 | #210 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,762 | 1,323 | #227 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,533 | 1,306 | #226 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,481 | 1,507 | #199 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,580 | 1,625 | #183 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,757 | 1,599 | #177 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,902 | 1,602 | #170 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,242 | 1,578 | #168 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,165 | 1,701 | #161 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,010 | 1,548 | #172 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,321 | 1,599 | #164 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,623 | 1,487 | #174 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,785 | 1,426 | #176 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,002 | 1,533 | #163 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,303 | 1,503 | #164 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,732 | 1,453 | #166 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,003 | 1,503 | #158 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,404 | 1,693 | #147 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,985 | 2,032 | #126 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,074 | 2,074 | #127 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,947 | 2,288 | #113 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,853 | 2,675 | #106 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,541 | 3,156 | #100 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,318 | 4,197 | #75 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,413 | 4,660 | #60 |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,210 | 4,642 | #60 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,285 | 4,440 | #63 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,929 | 4,718 | #63 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,419 | 5,938 | #52 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,551 | 2,644 | #127 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,425 | 2,081 | #158 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,962 | 1,923 | #165 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,078 | 1,783 | #174 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,241 | 2,209 | #156 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,658 | 1,299 | #213 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,001 | 417 | #382 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,534 | 71 | #904 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,143 | 44 | #1,143 |
| 1955 | — | — | 34 | #1,296 |
| 1954 | — | — | 39 | #1,205 |
| 1953 | — | — | 43 | #1,125 |
| 1952 | — | — | 68 | #846 |
| 1951 | — | — | 22 | #1,606 |
| 1950 | — | — | 11 | #2,345 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,808 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,061 |
| 1947 | — | — | 11 | #2,399 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,748 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,433 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,295 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,221 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,188 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,940 |
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).