Darlyn
#4,378 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Darlyn has been given to 2,097 babies in the U.S. since 1926. In 2025 it ranked #4,378 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 61 recorded.
Babies named Darlyn, 2025
1 in 104,000
Darlyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Darlyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 104,000
- 32 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 50,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,378
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 71,810 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Darlyn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darlyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Darlyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Darlyn was born before 1996 — so the typical Darlyn is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 18.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 46.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,733
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 18.6% of all recorded uses (384).
Is Darlyn 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
- −153
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −920
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,323
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.39×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 52.5%
- Peak was 2021 (61)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.1% average annual change
Spellings of Darlyn
Darlyn is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 31.9% against Darlyn's 0.12%.
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 Darlyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Darlyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 117,326 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 33,333
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Maryland1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
- 7Pennsylvania1 in —
- 8Virginia1 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. Darlyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Darlyn around the world
Where Darlyn 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 Australia2000–2000#727in 2000
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Darlyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Darlyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Darlyn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Darlyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Darlyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.