Darleny
Darleny was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,002 among girls’ names; 221 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darleny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darleny?
#9,002 among girls’ names, 2025
Darleny rose from #13,339 in 2015 to #9,002 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 6.8 per million.
15 babies in 2020, the peak
Darleny peaked in 2020, when 15 girls were given it, #7,300 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,002 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,708 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,129 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,555 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,137 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,300 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,711 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,653 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,901 | 5.2 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,339 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #15,034 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,079 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,841 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,429 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,945 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,713 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,881 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,309 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,797 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,345 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,597 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,377 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,377 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,942 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,624 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,841 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,271 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,152 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,995 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darleny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darleny has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darleny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darleny, and how old are they?
An estimated 219 Americans named Darleny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 318 people named Darleny (315 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 157 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 214,109 babies since 1880, Darleny is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 119 babies (9.2%), the second 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 Darleny
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 Darleny and names like it
- Compare Darleny and DarleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDarleny peaked in 2020.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Darleny.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Darleny alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.