Darlena
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Darlena has been given to 1,536 babies in the U.S. since 1920. 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 1964, with 53 recorded.
Babies named Darlena, 2015
1 in 740,000
Darlena over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Darlena?
Darlena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 740,000
- 5 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,148 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Darlena sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darlena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Darlenas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Darlena was born before 1963 — so the typical Darlena is around 62 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 26.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 9.2%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,251
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (412).
Is Darlena 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1964 (53)
- Years since peak
- 61
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.5% average annual change
Spellings of Darlena
Darlena is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 30.4% against Darlena's 0.23%.
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 Darlena is used
Across 1910–2025, Darlena was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 244,076 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1West Virginia1 in 25,000
- 2Indiana1 in 100,000
- 3Kentucky1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in —
- 5Florida1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
- 7Texas1 in —
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. Darlena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Darlena by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Darlena
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Darlena
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.