Darlin — #5623 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Darlin

The Social Security Administration has registered 810 babies named Darlin between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Darlin currently holds the #5623 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 35 babies received it in a single year. Darlin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 82 additional births since 2005.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Darlin performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 258 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Darlin shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 146 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Darlin in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Darlin in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 810 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.