Darron
Darron was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,891 among boys’ names; 6,190 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,540 Americans named Darron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 32 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darron?
#6,891 among boys’ names, 2025
Darron fell from #3,603 in 2015 to #6,891 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 7.0 per million.
372 babies in 1965, the peak
Darron peaked in 1965, when 372 boys were given it, #408 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,891 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,481 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,617 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,886 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,160 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,739 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,621 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,502 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,496 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,174 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,603 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 37 | #3,046 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,427 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 41 | #2,873 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,957 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 51 | #2,436 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 57 | #2,295 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 55 | #2,352 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 53 | #2,419 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,152 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,332 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,102 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,436 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 59 | #1,894 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 61 | #1,817 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 73 | #1,611 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 67 | #1,604 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 71 | #1,527 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,421 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 67 | #1,499 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 76 | #1,349 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,215 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 83 | #1,243 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,056 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 110 | #1,025 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 109 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 110 | #973 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 112 | #903 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 92 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 97 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 128 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 106 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 101 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 94 | #921 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 94 | #930 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 82 | #998 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 88 | #937 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 86 | #934 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 80 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 93 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 104 | #815 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 107 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 137 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 124 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 161 | #649 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 192 | #583 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 227 | #515 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 247 | #481 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 275 | #454 | 0.16 |
| 1966 | 295 | #446 | 0.17 |
| 1965 | 372 | #408 | 0.20 |
| 1964 | 170 | #604 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 90 | #799 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 101 | #760 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 95 | #781 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 66 | #929 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,214 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 28 | #1,488 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 23 | #1,683 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 22 | #1,687 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,460 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,483 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,207 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,274 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,471 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,807 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,919 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,522 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,069 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darron has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darron, and how old are they?
5,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 6,190 Americans ever recorded as Darron. The median Darron alive today is 47 years old; half are between 32 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 4,669 people named Darron (33 women and girls, 4,636 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,629 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 547 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,310 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 896 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 290 |
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 Darron born?
The states with the most babies named Darron are Texas, California and Tennessee, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 611 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 319 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 233 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Alabama | 211 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 196 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 192 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 188 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Georgia | 183 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 183 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Missouri | 178 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Darron is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darron is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1945 it was given 2.5 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 Darron 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 228,337 babies since 1880, Darron is the eighth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 731 babies (1.6%), again the eighth 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 Darron
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 Darron and names like it
- Compare Darron and DarrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDarron peaked in 1965.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darron since 1910.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Darron.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Darron alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.