Meaning not yet researched.
Darrin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #102 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #102 in 1965; #3,393 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darrin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,393 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #102.
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Darrin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 boys in 2025. Peak: #102 in 1965 · most boys in one year: 3,255 (1965).
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Darrin, making it the 3,393rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 14 places from #3,407 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 34 boys named Darrin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #102, reached in 1965. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,255. For comparison, it was #2,306 in 2015 and #3,802 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darrin in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 29,747 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 13,687 babies named Darrin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 449 US boys were named Darrin; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Darren (104,506 babies since 1880), Darin (32,910 babies since 1880), Darian (23,297 babies since 1880) and Darien (12,826 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Darriane and Darrione 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: Darriane (14), Darrione (5).
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 Darrin 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 | — | — | 34 | #3,393 |
| 2024 | — | — | 34 | #3,407 |
| 2023 | — | — | 26 | #4,139 |
| 2022 | — | — | 37 | #3,228 |
| 2021 | — | — | 45 | #2,787 |
| 2020 | — | — | 40 | #2,938 |
| 2019 | — | — | 46 | #2,741 |
| 2018 | — | — | 62 | #2,215 |
| 2017 | — | — | 65 | #2,113 |
| 2016 | — | — | 60 | #2,239 |
| 2015 | — | — | 57 | #2,306 |
| 2014 | — | — | 66 | #2,100 |
| 2013 | — | — | 80 | #1,798 |
| 2012 | — | — | 76 | #1,897 |
| 2011 | — | — | 84 | #1,740 |
| 2010 | — | — | 97 | #1,616 |
| 2009 | — | — | 113 | #1,474 |
| 2008 | — | — | 125 | #1,364 |
| 2007 | — | — | 125 | #1,343 |
| 2006 | — | — | 133 | #1,257 |
| 2005 | — | — | 166 | #1,018 |
| 2004 | — | — | 169 | #986 |
| 2003 | — | — | 177 | #927 |
| 2002 | — | — | 170 | #945 |
| 2001 | — | — | 175 | #898 |
| 2000 | — | — | 183 | #865 |
| 1999 | — | — | 192 | #798 |
| 1998 | — | — | 218 | #740 |
| 1997 | — | — | 234 | #687 |
| 1996 | — | — | 245 | #672 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,953 | 282 | #610 |
| 1994 | — | — | 305 | #590 |
| 1993 | — | — | 336 | #554 |
| 1992 | — | — | 322 | #568 |
| 1991 | — | — | 391 | #499 |
| 1990 | — | — | 376 | #511 |
| 1989 | — | — | 418 | #460 |
| 1988 | — | — | 403 | #449 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,726 | 386 | #452 |
| 1986 | — | — | 380 | #442 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,584 | 379 | #437 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,792 | 364 | #441 |
| 1983 | — | — | 331 | #456 |
| 1982 | — | — | 286 | #502 |
| 1981 | — | — | 280 | #503 |
| 1980 | — | — | 283 | #503 |
| 1979 | — | — | 272 | #509 |
| 1978 | — | — | 347 | #424 |
| 1977 | — | — | 362 | #414 |
| 1976 | — | — | 466 | #354 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,398 | 587 | #309 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,916 | 594 | #306 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,713 | 657 | #279 |
| 1972 | — | — | 860 | #247 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,606 | 1,264 | #197 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,261 | 1,525 | #180 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,490 | 1,814 | #158 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,044 | 2,077 | #138 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,373 | 2,029 | #141 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,249 | 2,569 | #119 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,959 | 3,255 | #102 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,156 | 801 | #272 |
| 1963 | — | — | 310 | #450 |
| 1962 | — | — | 305 | #458 |
| 1961 | — | — | 232 | #522 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,843 | 217 | #539 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,704 | 102 | #753 |
| 1958 | — | — | 31 | #1,404 |
| 1957 | — | — | 12 | #2,401 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,109 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,810 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,009 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,575 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,160 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,133 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,802 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,795 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,847 |
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).