Darin
Darin was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,594 among boys’ names; 32,910 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 29,100 Americans named Darin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 42 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Darin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Darin is “a male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Darren.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Darin?
#3,594 among boys’ names, 2025
Darin fell from #2,038 in 2015 to #3,594 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 36.5 to 18.1 per million.
2,624 babies in 1965, the peak
Darin peaked in 1965, when 2,624 babies were given it (2,614 boys, #123 among boys’ names). The 31 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,594 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,535 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,240 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,706 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,871 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,736 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,432 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,306 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,194 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,029 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,038 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 77 | #1,891 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 80 | #1,796 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 88 | #1,713 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,548 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 106 | #1,526 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,547 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 135 | #1,288 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 156 | #1,145 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 161 | #1,093 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 188 | #929 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 171 | #977 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 231 | #763 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 220 | #785 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 219 | #776 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 212 | #778 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 241 | #694 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 201 | #778 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 236 | #682 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 236 | #685 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 228 | #698 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 258 | #647 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 259 | #642 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 293 | #600 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 345 | #546 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 348 | #530 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 351 | #510 | 0.18 |
| 1988 | 366 | #481 | 0.19 |
| 1987 | 390 | #448 | 0.21 |
| 1986 | 409 | #427 | 0.22 |
| 1985 | 418 | #417 | 0.23 |
| 1984 | 428 | #398 | 0.24 |
| 1983 | 429 | #387 | 0.24 |
| 1982 | 424 | #395 | 0.23 |
| 1981 | 455 | #378 | 0.25 |
| 1980 | 455 | #379 | 0.26 |
| 1979 | 499 | #351 | 0.29 |
| 1978 | 533 | #329 | 0.32 |
| 1977 | 601 | #314 | 0.37 |
| 1976 | 649 | #290 | 0.41 |
| 1975 | 844 | #245 | 0.54 |
| 1974 | 1,037 | #211 | 0.66 |
| 1973 | 1,057 | #205 | 0.68 |
| 1972 | 1,130 | #203 | 0.70 |
| 1971 | 1,291 | #193 | 0.73 |
| 1970 | 1,441 | #188 | 0.78 |
| 1969 | 1,789 | #159 | 1.0 |
| 1968 | 1,955 | #147 | 1.1 |
| 1967 | 2,017 | #142 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 2,251 | #134 | 1.3 |
| 1965 | 2,614 | #123 | 1.4 |
| 1964 | 1,023 | #236 | 0.51 |
| 1963 | 712 | #290 | 0.35 |
| 1962 | 621 | #316 | 0.30 |
| 1961 | 438 | #378 | 0.21 |
| 1960 | 325 | #448 | 0.15 |
| 1959 | 97 | #776 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 22 | #1,693 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #1,966 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,663 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,237 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,941 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,198 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,919 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,797 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,791 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 32,910 Americans recorded as Darin, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 31 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 Darin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darin, and how old are they?
29,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 32,910 Americans ever recorded as Darin. The median Darin alive today is 54 years old; half are between 42 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 27,677 people named Darin (440 women and girls, 27,237 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 29,935 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,630 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 17,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,790 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 670 |
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 Darin born?
The states with the most babies named Darin are California, Illinois and Michigan, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 3,932 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 1,641 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 1,445 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 1,414 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 1,372 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 1,341 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Texas | 1,278 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 1,203 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,065 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 1,044 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Darin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darin is most over-represented in South Dakota: since 1948 it was given 4.0 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 Darin 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, Darin is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 759 babies (4.1%), the eighth 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 Darin
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 Darin and names like it
- Compare Darin and DarrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDarin peaked in 1965.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darin since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Darin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Darin.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Darin alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.