Darlyne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Darlyne has been given to 1,414 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1935, with 50 recorded.
Babies named Darlyne, 2021
1 in 678,000
Darlyne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Darlyne?
Darlyne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Darlyne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darlyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Darlynes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Darlyne was born before 1940 — so the typical Darlyne is around 85 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 29.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.8%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 403
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (415).
Is Darlyne 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
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1935 (50)
- Years since peak
- 90
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.6% average annual change
Spellings of Darlyne
Darlyne is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 33.8% against Darlyne'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 Darlyne is used
Across 1910–2025, Darlyne was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 222,025 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Dakota1 in 9,091
- 2Minnesota1 in 33,333
- 3Iowa1 in 50,000
- 4Kansas1 in 100,000
- 5South Dakota1 in 100,000
- 6Wisconsin1 in 100,000
- 7California1 in —
- 8Illinois1 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. Darlyne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Darlyne around the world
Where Darlyne 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.
- France2007–2007#5,527in 2007
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Darlyne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Darlyne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Darlyne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.