Daren
Daren was given to 37 boys in 2025, #3,196 among boys’ names; 11,049 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,690 Americans named Daren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 35 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Daren mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Daren is “a male given name, variant of Darren.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Daren?
#3,196 among boys’ names, 2025
Daren fell from #2,976 in 2015 to #3,196 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 20.3 to 21.7 per million.
768 babies in 1965, the peak
Daren peaked in 1965, when 768 babies were given it (761 boys, #271 among boys’ names). The 37 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,196 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,839 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,239 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,202 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,311 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,505 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,505 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,904 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,258 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,120 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #2,976 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,301 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 50 | #2,468 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 56 | #2,299 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 76 | #1,851 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 75 | #1,901 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 86 | #1,761 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 90 | #1,694 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,497 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 88 | #1,629 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 80 | #1,674 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 89 | #1,504 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 80 | #1,578 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 87 | #1,458 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,336 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 107 | #1,240 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 77 | #1,475 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,389 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 124 | #1,028 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 89 | #1,246 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 95 | #1,183 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 108 | #1,072 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 105 | #1,087 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 115 | #1,015 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 131 | #918 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 135 | #883 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 138 | #853 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 144 | #788 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 154 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 143 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 130 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 186 | #624 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 156 | #689 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 169 | #673 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 156 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 182 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 167 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 167 | #649 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 167 | #654 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 182 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 194 | #578 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 228 | #526 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 204 | #553 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 216 | #541 | 0.13 |
| 1971 | 301 | #469 | 0.17 |
| 1970 | 348 | #438 | 0.19 |
| 1969 | 389 | #404 | 0.22 |
| 1968 | 505 | #342 | 0.29 |
| 1967 | 565 | #312 | 0.32 |
| 1966 | 597 | #305 | 0.33 |
| 1965 | 761 | #271 | 0.41 |
| 1964 | 314 | #450 | 0.16 |
| 1963 | 252 | #507 | 0.12 |
| 1962 | 217 | #538 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 190 | #570 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 161 | #614 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 87 | #817 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 35 | #1,307 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,252 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,898 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 23 | #1,618 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,773 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 19 | #1,776 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,875 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,273 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 19 | #1,710 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 19 | #1,722 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,865 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,177 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,801 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,678 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,288 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,615 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,636 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,632 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,364 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,892 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,642 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,133 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,202 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,251 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,226 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,049 Americans recorded as Daren, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 37 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daren, and how old are they?
9,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 11,049 Americans ever recorded as Daren. The median Daren alive today is 51 years old; half are between 35 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 9,451 people named Daren (250 women and girls, 9,201 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,841 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,210 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,530 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,060 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 497 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Daren born?
The states with the most babies named Daren are California, New York and Texas, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,298 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 655 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 619 | #2,656 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 359 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 340 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 316 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 310 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 290 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Utah | 238 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Minnesota | 205 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Daren is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daren is most over-represented in Utah: since 1922 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Daren with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 229,920 babies since 1880, Daren is the sixth most given (4.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 759 babies (4.9%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Daren
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 Daren and names like it
- Compare Daren and DarrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDaren peaked in 1965.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daren since 1910.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Daren.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Daren alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.