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Daren

#3,196 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly oak, through Darren

Daren has been given to 11,049 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #3,196 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1965, with 761 recorded.

Babies named Daren, 2025

1 in 89,600

Daren over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daren: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly oak, through Darren

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Daren means

Daren belongs to the name family reached through Daren → Darren. Its meaning is “oak”.

Origin, language, and formation

Daren is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Darren.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,855 boys were recorded with the name Daren between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 761 in 1965; its best national rank was #271 in 1965.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,505 in 2020 to #3,196 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,976 in 2015 to #3,196 in 2025.

In the United States, 194 girls were recorded with the name Daren between 1950 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1959; its best national rank was #3,135 in 1959.

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 Daren?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 46,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,196
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daren 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 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Darens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daren was born before 1973 — so the typical Daren is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
10,651
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (3,951).

Is Daren 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
−357
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+309
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−220
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.9%
Peak was 1965 (761)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#271
1965

Spellings of Daren

Daren is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 19.5% against Daren's 0.34%.

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 Daren is used

Across 1910–2025, Daren was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 23,494 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 6,250
  2. 2Oregon1 in 9,091
  3. 3Idaho1 in 10,000
  4. 4California1 in 14,286
  5. 5Kansas1 in 14,286
  6. 6Maine1 in 14,286
  7. 7Washington1 in 14,286
  8. 8Florida1 in 16,667

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. Daren has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Daren around the world

Where Daren 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
    2000–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–1991
    #370
    in 1991
  • Ireland
    1968–1994
    #247
    in 1994
  • France
    1993–2025
    #2,165
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–1991
    #481
    in 1991

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

Notable people named Daren

People whose public names include Daren, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Daren in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Daren. Linked forms have their own page here.

DaranDarren

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Daren by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,196
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 309
Best rank ever
#271
1965
Peak year
1965
761 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,855
Count in 2025
37

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,135
1959
Peak year
1959
15 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
194
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Daren

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

DarrenDarioDaronDarienDarielDarinDarionDarianSorenDarbyDarronDarcyDarellDarynEfrenDarelDarwinDarrinDarrelDarylDarrickDarvinDarriusDarek

Names with a curve like Daren

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Daren, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RobbyStaceyTraceyKraigRobbieTadPernellRichieLisaLorneStacyBryon

Sibling names for Daren

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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