Darlyn
Darlyn was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,378 among girls’ names; 2,097 Americans have been recorded with it since 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,820 Americans named Darlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 11 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darlyn?
#4,378 among girls’ names, 2025
Darlyn rose from #5,701 in 2015 to #4,378 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.9 to 19.9 per million.
61 babies in 2006, the peak
Darlyn peaked in 2006, when 61 babies were given it (52 girls, #3,186 among girls’ names). The 32 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,378 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,225 | 21.0 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,233 | 31.2 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,488 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,792 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,458 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,183 | 29.8 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,800 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,934 | 22.0 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,181 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,701 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,200 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,445 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,063 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,364 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,423 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,889 | 21.8 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,598 | 23.8 |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,997 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,186 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,860 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,839 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,635 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,523 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,045 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,901 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,252 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,408 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,504 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,107 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,729 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,501 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,512 | 17.1 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,264 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,954 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,100 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,573 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,243 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,355 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,249 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,123 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,988 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,227 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,463 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,557 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,568 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,235 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,793 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,692 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,463 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,329 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,867 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,709 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,537 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,131 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,806 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,346 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,371 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,528 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,288 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,132 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,203 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,318 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,860 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,528 | 11.4 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,612 | 9.9 |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,171 | 13.4 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,177 | 12.7 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,549 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,914 | 15.9 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,035 | 13.9 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,312 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,342 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,715 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,873 | 15.2 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,892 | 15.2 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,342 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,797 | 16.4 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,628 | 19.1 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,887 | 15.3 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,817 | 16.6 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,274 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,854 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,427 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,126 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,057 | 14.6 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,038 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,860 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,892 | 16.3 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,480 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,317 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,171 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,098 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,810 | 9.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,867 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,966 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,963 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,097 Americans recorded as Darlyn, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 32 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Darlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darlyn, and how old are they?
1,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 2,097 Americans ever recorded as Darlyn. The median Darlyn alive today is 23 years old; half are between 11 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 2,152 people named Darlyn (1,880 women and girls, 272 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,640 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 79 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 331 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 143 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 230 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 527 |
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 Darlyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #2,322 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,419 | 0.4× |
Where Darlyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darlyn is most over-represented in California: since 1926 it was given 1.8 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 girls’ 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 Darlyn 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 14,097 babies since 1880, Darlyn is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 91 babies (35%), again the second most given.
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 Darlyn
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 Darlyn and names like it
- Compare Darlyn and DarleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDarlyn peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darlyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Darlyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Darlyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.