Meaning not yet researched.
Darwin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 241 in 2025. Its best rank was #297 in 1938.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #297 in 1938; #961 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darwin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#961 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1938, at #297.
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Darwin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 241 boys in 2025. Peak: #297 in 1938 · most boys in one year: 418 (1958).
In 2025, 241 US boys were named Darwin, making it the 961st most common boys’ name of the year, down 122 places from #839 in 2024. That is 52 fewer than the 293 boys named Darwin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #297, reached in 1938. The most boys given the name in a single year was 418, in 1958. For comparison, it was #869 in 2015 and #377 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darwin in 131 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 26,436 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 3,497 babies named Darwin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,424 US boys were named Darwin; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 293. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,087 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Darwin ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #509 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Derwin (3,833 babies since 1880) and Darvin (3,708 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Darwyn and Darwuin 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: Darwyn (736), Darwuin (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 Darwin 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 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 5 | #509 | #404 |
| Iowa | 6 | #516 | — |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #519 | #568 |
| Florida | 30 | #575 | #1,202 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #608 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #644 | #592 |
| Washington | 9 | #699 | #872 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #723 | #554 |
| Indiana | 6 | #879 | #927 |
| Texas | 29 | #882 | #751 |
| Virginia | 7 | #899 | #813 |
| California | 25 | #913 | #798 |
| New York | 14 | #925 | #578 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #936 | #1,064 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,016 | #1,255 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,055 | #723 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,066 | #557 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,139 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 241 | #961 |
| 2024 | — | — | 293 | #839 |
| 2023 | — | — | 228 | #970 |
| 2022 | — | — | 229 | #984 |
| 2021 | — | — | 196 | #1,083 |
| 2020 | — | — | 248 | #905 |
| 2019 | — | — | 223 | #958 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,233 | 237 | #907 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,569 | 266 | #833 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,781 | 263 | #857 |
| 2015 | — | — | 256 | #869 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,214 | 236 | #909 |
| 2013 | — | — | 259 | #829 |
| 2012 | — | — | 248 | #856 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,443 | 291 | #773 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,830 | 313 | #732 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,990 | 314 | #740 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,212 | 280 | #785 |
| 2007 | — | — | 261 | #822 |
| 2006 | — | — | 266 | #781 |
| 2005 | — | — | 212 | #866 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,753 | 217 | #820 |
| 2003 | — | — | 197 | #871 |
| 2002 | — | — | 179 | #901 |
| 2001 | — | — | 180 | #878 |
| 2000 | — | — | 146 | #1,007 |
| 1999 | — | — | 129 | #1,058 |
| 1998 | — | — | 132 | #1,024 |
| 1997 | — | — | 136 | #968 |
| 1996 | — | — | 105 | #1,131 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,956 | 120 | #1,014 |
| 1994 | — | — | 137 | #943 |
| 1993 | — | — | 136 | #921 |
| 1992 | — | — | 126 | #956 |
| 1991 | — | — | 143 | #883 |
| 1990 | — | — | 128 | #910 |
| 1989 | — | — | 148 | #816 |
| 1988 | — | — | 129 | #837 |
| 1987 | — | — | 115 | #872 |
| 1986 | — | — | 106 | #881 |
| 1985 | — | — | 107 | #877 |
| 1984 | — | — | 122 | #784 |
| 1983 | — | — | 96 | #897 |
| 1982 | — | — | 88 | #957 |
| 1981 | — | — | 120 | #803 |
| 1980 | — | — | 119 | #805 |
| 1979 | — | — | 102 | #859 |
| 1978 | — | — | 106 | #832 |
| 1977 | — | — | 118 | #788 |
| 1976 | — | — | 84 | #907 |
| 1975 | — | — | 125 | #747 |
| 1974 | — | — | 144 | #677 |
| 1973 | — | — | 144 | #667 |
| 1972 | — | — | 142 | #675 |
| 1971 | — | — | 191 | #601 |
| 1970 | — | — | 207 | #563 |
| 1969 | — | — | 260 | #474 |
| 1968 | — | — | 297 | #444 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,008 | 299 | #437 |
| 1966 | — | — | 332 | #415 |
| 1965 | — | — | 383 | #403 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,157 | 354 | #426 |
| 1963 | — | — | 347 | #429 |
| 1962 | — | — | 398 | #404 |
| 1961 | — | — | 374 | #408 |
| 1960 | — | — | 392 | #399 |
| 1959 | — | — | 397 | #399 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,004 | 418 | #380 |
| 1957 | — | — | 382 | #396 |
| 1956 | — | — | 371 | #390 |
| 1955 | — | — | 343 | #390 |
| 1954 | — | — | 320 | #400 |
| 1953 | — | — | 313 | #397 |
| 1952 | — | — | 299 | #398 |
| 1951 | — | — | 323 | #378 |
| 1950 | — | — | 324 | #377 |
| 1949 | — | — | 302 | #386 |
| 1948 | — | — | 295 | #395 |
| 1947 | — | — | 350 | #369 |
| 1946 | — | — | 298 | #378 |
| 1945 | — | — | 235 | #390 |
| 1944 | — | — | 303 | #343 |
| 1943 | — | — | 332 | #334 |
| 1942 | — | — | 326 | #336 |
| 1941 | — | — | 283 | #345 |
| 1940 | — | — | 309 | #320 |
| 1939 | — | — | 332 | #306 |
| 1938 | — | — | 338 | #297 |
| 1937 | — | — | 299 | #309 |
| 1936 | — | — | 304 | #305 |
| 1935 | — | — | 330 | #299 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,905 | 300 | #314 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,487 | 300 | #308 |
| 1932 | — | — | 281 | #330 |
| 1931 | — | — | 259 | #339 |
| 1930 | — | — | 280 | #332 |
| 1929 | — | — | 278 | #332 |
| 1928 | — | — | 252 | #367 |
| 1927 | — | — | 242 | #378 |
| 1926 | — | — | 202 | #426 |
| 1925 | — | — | 225 | #398 |
| 1924 | — | — | 218 | #414 |
| 1923 | — | — | 215 | #409 |
| 1922 | — | — | 188 | #445 |
| 1921 | — | — | 214 | #415 |
| 1920 | — | — | 174 | #460 |
| 1919 | — | — | 155 | #481 |
| 1918 | — | — | 156 | #472 |
| 1917 | — | — | 133 | #498 |
| 1916 | — | — | 150 | #465 |
| 1915 | — | — | 139 | #467 |
| 1914 | — | — | 75 | #580 |
| 1913 | — | — | 74 | #503 |
| 1912 | — | — | 45 | #615 |
| 1911 | — | — | 19 | #736 |
| 1910 | — | — | 18 | #714 |
| 1909 | — | — | 11 | #908 |
| 1908 | — | — | 11 | #838 |
| 1907 | — | — | 11 | #828 |
| 1906 | — | — | 7 | #1,033 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #898 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,163 |
| 1901 | — | — | 8 | #792 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,357 |
| 1898 | — | — | 8 | #823 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #867 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,076 |
| 1889 | — | — | 8 | #734 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,004 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #968 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #898 |
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).