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Dar

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dar has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1971. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1988, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Dar, 2014

1 in 741,000

Dar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dar: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dar means

Dar is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dar is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Dar between 1971 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1988; its best national rank was #5,062 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dar?

Dar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dar was born before 1988 — so the typical Dar is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
28
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Dar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1988 (8)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,062
1971

Dar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,062
1971
Peak year
1988
8 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
28
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Dar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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