Darlen
Darlen was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 184 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darlen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darlen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,881, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2008, the peak
Darlen peaked in 2008, when 11 girls were given it, #10,246 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #15,881 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,119 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,195 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,516 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,284 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,489 | 5.1 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,246 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,594 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,101 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,869 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | #14,297 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,270 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,845 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,712 | 2.9 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,240 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,237 | 4.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,941 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,396 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,593 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,607 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,762 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,516 | 4.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,598 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,280 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,423 | 3.0 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,847 | 3.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,456 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,323 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darlen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darlen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darlen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darlen, and how old are they?
An estimated 163 Americans named Darlen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 18 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 486 people named Darlen (451 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 164 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Darlen rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,998 babies since 1880, Darlen is the eighth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 91 babies recorded by SSA was a Darlen (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.
More about Darlen and names like it
- Compare Darlen and DarleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDarlen peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Darlen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Darlen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.