Darleen

#9,604 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Darlene

Darleen has been given to 8,332 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #9,604 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1958, with 231 recorded.

Babies named Darleen, 2025

1 in 332,000

Darleen over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Darleen: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Darlene

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Darleen means

Darleen is a variant of Darlene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Darlene.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,332 girls were recorded with the name Darleen between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 231 in 1958; its best national rank was #494 in 1943.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,075 in 2020 to #9,604 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,721 in 2015 to #9,604 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.

How common is Darleen?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 161,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #9,604; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Darleen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Darleens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Darleen was born before 1951 — so the typical Darleen is around 74 today.

Median birth year: 1951; About 74 years old
Biggest decade: 1940s; 22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 5.9%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 4,405; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1940s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (1,842).

Is Darleen 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: +871; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,529; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −1,883; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.67×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 4.3%; Peak was 1958 (231)
Years since peak: 67; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #494; 1943

Spellings of Darleen

Darleen is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 44.9% against Darleen's 1.8%.

Darlene44.9%204,942
Doreen10.2%46,431
Aileen8.2%37,637
Marlee3.9%17,654
Karlee3.0%13,647
Jayleen2.9%13,048
Carlee2.8%12,982
Arleen2.8%12,611

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 Darleen is used

Across 1910–2025, Darleen was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 28,176 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1South Dakota1 in 6,667
2Nebraska1 in 8,333
3Minnesota1 in 10,000
4Wisconsin1 in 11,111
5California1 in 14,286
6North Dakota1 in 14,286
7Hawaii1 in 16,667
8Iowa1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Darleen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Darleen around the world

Where Darleen 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.

South Australia
1952–1979
#627
in 1979

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Darleen

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

Darleen CarrActor
b. 1950

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.

Darleen in other languages

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

Darlie Darlene Darline

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

Darleen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #9,604
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,529
Best rank ever: #494; 1943
Peak year: 1958; 231 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 8,332
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Darleen

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

Dareen Dariana Darian Darcie Kayleen Laureen Darby Yasmeen Daria Jayleen Darci Darline Marleen Darling Ayleen Darcey Darlyn Dariela Joleen Dariyah Arleen Darnell Darcy Jasleen

Names with a curve like Darleen

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

Marilee Madonna Mickey Oralia Delois Caryl Erlinda Carlene Jerrie Marva Doretha Kitty

Sibling names for Darleen

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

Laureen Evonne Lyn Maryjo Mariann Andra Lizabeth Juliann

For a brother

Nicky Stan Gerry Barton Bernie Garth Kennith Rob

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