Darlean
Darlean was last recorded in 1979, when 5 babies were given it; 884 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darlean by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darlean?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,555, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1958, the peak
Darlean peaked in 1958, when 47 girls were given it, #1,556 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #10,555 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,796 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,629 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,065 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,628 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,931 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,128 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,749 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,553 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,042 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 19 | #2,889 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,463 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,482 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,204 | 15.8 |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,068 | 17.1 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,123 | 15.8 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,372 | 12.9 |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,836 | 18.8 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,952 | 16.3 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,556 | 23.4 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,707 | 19.6 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,742 | 18.4 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,073 | 13.8 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,713 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,147 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,140 | 12.4 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,499 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,362 | 10.5 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,539 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,000 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,155 | 11.8 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,243 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,253 | 11.5 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,977 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,732 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,133 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,425 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,217 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,508 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,962 | 15.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,890 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,907 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,939 | 16.2 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,598 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,485 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,332 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,970 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,576 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,334 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,292 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,612 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,161 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,182 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,590 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darlean a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darlean has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darlean: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darlean, and how old are they?
An estimated 603 Americans named Darlean and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 62 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 563 people named Darlean (563 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 676 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 13,020 babies since 1880, Darlean is the fourth most given (6.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 91 babies recorded by SSA was a Darlean (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Darlean
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 Darlean and names like it
- Compare Darlean and DarleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDarlean peaked in 1958.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darlean since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Darlean.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Darlean alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.