Darwyn
Darwyn was last recorded in 2021, when 7 babies were given it; 736 Americans have been recorded with it between 1923 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 Darwyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darwyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,952, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1935, the peak
Darwyn peaked in 1935, when 67 boys were given it, #752 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 7 | #9,952 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,961 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,299 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,029 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,185 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,031 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,642 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,686 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,929 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,798 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | #9,169 | 4.0 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,324 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,251 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,652 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,343 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,942 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,635 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,153 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,113 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,831 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,679 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,367 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,745 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,296 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,957 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,755 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,643 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,488 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,457 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,275 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,536 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,259 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,729 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,862 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,375 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,773 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,048 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,828 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 26 | #1,524 | 14.0 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,333 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,900 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,411 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,264 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 22 | #1,732 | 10.3 |
| 1959 | 19 | #1,876 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,040 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,312 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 14 | #2,186 | 6.6 |
| 1955 | 16 | #1,986 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,626 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,575 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,922 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,893 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,819 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,808 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,136 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,443 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,178 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,282 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,532 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,096 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,677 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,378 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,519 | 7.8 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,087 | 10.8 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,105 | 10.8 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,928 | 13.1 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,656 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 67 | #752 | 64.3 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,157 | 11.6 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,898 | 7.7 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,808 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,491 | 4.4 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,371 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darwyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darwyn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darwyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darwyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 475 Americans named Darwyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 26 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 524 people named Darwyn (35 women and girls, 489 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 527 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Darwyn?
Darwyn is a less common spelling of Darwin: SSA has recorded 736 Darwyn and 26,436 Darwin since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 27,172 babies since 1880, Darwyn is the second most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 241 babies recorded by SSA was a Darwyn (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.
More about Darwyn and names like it
- Compare Darwyn and DarwinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDarwyn peaked in 1935.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darwyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Darwyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Darwyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.