Dardan

#9,925 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly pear, through Dardhan

Dardan has been given to 102 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #9,925 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Dardan, 2025

1 in 474,000

Dardan over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dardan: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly pear, through Dardhan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dardan means

Dardan belongs to the name family reached through Dardan → Dardhan. Its meaning is “pear”.

Origin, language, and formation

Dardan is used in Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dardhan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 102 boys were recorded with the name Dardan between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1990; its best national rank was #5,064 in 1990.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,972 in 2015 to #9,925 in 2025.

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 Dardan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 244,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #9,925; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Dardan 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dardan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dardans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dardan was born before 2006 — so the typical Dardan is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 39.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 52.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 102; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Dardan 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: +192; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,047; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.17×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 70.0%; Peak was 1990 (10)
Years since peak: 35; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,064; 1990

Spellings of Dardan

Dardan is not the most common spelling — Jordan is, with 36.8% against Dardan's <0.01%.

Jordan36.8%401,196
Aidan10.9%118,431
Damian10.1%109,920
Darren9.5%103,937
Darin3.0%32,546
Adan2.9%31,478
Darrin2.7%29,615
Harlan2.4%26,481

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dardan is used

Across 1910–2025, Dardan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 740,213 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dardan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dardan around the world

Where Dardan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1998–2025
#2,664
in 2025
France
1998–2024
#5,435
in 2024
South Australia
2007–2007
#680
in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dardan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #9,925
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #5,064; 1990
Peak year: 1990; 10 that year
First recorded: 1990
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 102
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Dardan

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

Darlin Dareck Darkiel Darinel Dariell Dariush Dareld Darrie Darric Darrek Darcey Darrik Dareon Vardan Darcel Raidan Darrio Raydan Jeydan Darril Vandan Darden Darivs Daryel

Sibling names for Dardan

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

For a sister

Kacy Kala Kristian Jessika Casandra Alesha Anthony Ashlie

For a brother

Elizabeth Coty Bradly Garrick Laron Brandan Kelsey Arron

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