Dardan
Dardan was given to 7 boys in 2025, #9,925 among boys’ names; 102 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dardan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dardan?
#9,925 among boys’ names, 2025
Dardan rose from #10,972 in 2015 to #9,925 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 4.1 per million.
10 babies in 1990, the peak
Dardan peaked in 1990, when 10 boys were given it, #5,064 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,925 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,117 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,128 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,702 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,972 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,483 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,665 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,166 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,433 | 2.4 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,583 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | #10,235 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,991 | 4.2 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,816 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,165 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,064 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dardan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dardan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dardan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dardan, and how old are they?
An estimated 100 Americans named Dardan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 174 people named Dardan (0 women and girls, 174 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 81 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 170 babies since 1880, Dardan is the most given (60% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dardan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dardan and names like it
- Compare Dardan and DardenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDardan peaked in 1990.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dardan since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Dardan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dardan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.