Darlyne
Darlyne was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,414 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darlyne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darlyne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,817, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1935, the peak
Darlyne peaked in 1935, when 50 girls were given it, #975 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,817 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,046 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,328 | 5.6 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,445 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,659 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,707 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,202 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,595 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,870 | 4.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,127 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 10 | #6,910 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,786 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,753 | 4.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,699 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,399 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,004 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,778 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,570 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,020 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,886 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,945 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,821 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,831 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,867 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,516 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,362 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,072 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,345 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,913 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,030 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,943 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,133 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,138 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,352 | 10.5 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,962 | 14.1 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,549 | 20.9 |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,380 | 25.5 |
| 1945 | 30 | #1,486 | 23.0 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,493 | 22.6 |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,402 | 25.1 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,480 | 23.0 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,391 | 25.7 |
| 1940 | 39 | #1,173 | 34.1 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,197 | 33.7 |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,131 | 37.2 |
| 1937 | 37 | #1,181 | 34.8 |
| 1936 | 47 | #1,009 | 45.2 |
| 1935 | 50 | #975 | 47.7 |
| 1934 | 42 | #1,084 | 40.2 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,102 | 39.7 |
| 1932 | 45 | #1,056 | 42.2 |
| 1931 | 38 | #1,166 | 35.7 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,214 | 33.7 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,259 | 31.3 |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,317 | 29.5 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,687 | 21.0 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,632 | 21.9 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,704 | 20.5 |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,009 | 16.0 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,853 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,544 | 24.1 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,464 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,054 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,410 | 12.4 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,959 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,015 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,024 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,434 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darlyne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darlyne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darlyne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darlyne, and how old are they?
An estimated 615 Americans named Darlyne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 63 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 899 people named Darlyne (898 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 780 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
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, Darlyne is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 119 babies recorded by SSA was a Darlyne (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 Darlyne
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 Darlyne and names like it
- Compare Darlyne and DarleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDarlyne peaked in 1935.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darlyne since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Darlyne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Darlyne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.