Darrin
Darrin was given to 34 boys in 2025, #3,392 among boys’ names; 29,747 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 26,200 Americans named Darrin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 40 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darrin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Darrin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Darrin is “a male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Darren.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Darrin?
#3,392 among boys’ names, 2025
Darrin fell from #2,305 in 2015 to #3,392 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 29.7 to 19.9 per million.
3,273 babies in 1965, the peak
Darrin peaked in 1965, when 3,273 babies were given it (3,255 boys, #102 among boys’ names). The 34 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #3,392 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 34 | #3,405 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,135 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,226 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,786 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,937 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,740 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,214 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,112 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,239 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 57 | #2,305 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,099 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 80 | #1,797 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 76 | #1,896 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 84 | #1,739 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 97 | #1,616 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,473 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,364 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,343 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 133 | #1,257 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 166 | #1,017 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 169 | #985 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 177 | #926 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 170 | #944 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 175 | #897 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 183 | #863 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 192 | #796 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 218 | #739 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 234 | #686 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 245 | #671 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 282 | #609 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 305 | #589 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 336 | #554 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 322 | #566 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 391 | #499 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 376 | #510 | 0.18 |
| 1989 | 418 | #460 | 0.21 |
| 1988 | 403 | #449 | 0.21 |
| 1987 | 386 | #452 | 0.21 |
| 1986 | 380 | #442 | 0.21 |
| 1985 | 379 | #437 | 0.21 |
| 1984 | 364 | #441 | 0.20 |
| 1983 | 331 | #456 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 286 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 280 | #503 | 0.16 |
| 1980 | 283 | #503 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 272 | #509 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 347 | #424 | 0.21 |
| 1977 | 362 | #414 | 0.22 |
| 1976 | 466 | #354 | 0.30 |
| 1975 | 587 | #309 | 0.38 |
| 1974 | 594 | #306 | 0.38 |
| 1973 | 657 | #279 | 0.42 |
| 1972 | 860 | #247 | 0.53 |
| 1971 | 1,264 | #197 | 0.71 |
| 1970 | 1,525 | #180 | 0.82 |
| 1969 | 1,814 | #158 | 1.0 |
| 1968 | 2,077 | #138 | 1.2 |
| 1967 | 2,029 | #141 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 2,569 | #119 | 1.4 |
| 1965 | 3,255 | #102 | 1.7 |
| 1964 | 801 | #272 | 0.40 |
| 1963 | 310 | #450 | 0.15 |
| 1962 | 305 | #458 | 0.15 |
| 1961 | 232 | #522 | 0.11 |
| 1960 | 217 | #539 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 102 | #752 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 31 | #1,403 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,400 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,108 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,574 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,158 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,132 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,845 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darrin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darrin has been given almost only to boys: 132 girls in 78 years of records.
Girls and boys named Darrin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darrin, and how old are they?
26,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 29,747 Americans ever recorded as Darrin. The median Darrin alive today is 55 years old; half are between 40 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 23,564 people named Darrin (108 women and girls, 23,456 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,014 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,630 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,230 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 647 |
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 Darrin born?
The states with the most babies named Darrin are California, New York and Illinois, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,979 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 1,723 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 1,709 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 1,579 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 1,575 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 1,404 | #2,657 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,168 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 1,146 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 824 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 818 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Darrin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darrin is most over-represented in Kansas: since 1947 it was given 1.9 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 boys’ 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 Darrin 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 229,920 babies since 1880, Darrin is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 759 babies (4.5%), the sixth 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 Darrin
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 Darrin and names like it
- Compare Darrin and DarrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDarrin peaked in 1965.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darrin since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Darrin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Darrin.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Darrin alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.