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Darron

#6,891 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Darron has been given to 6,190 babies in the U.S. since 1945. In 2025 it ranked #6,891 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1965, with 372 recorded.

Babies named Darron, 2025

1 in 276,000

Darron over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Darron: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Darron means

Darron is a given name.

The naming story behind Darron

Wikidata records Darron as a given name. The entity identifier is Q51946298, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,190 boys were recorded with the name Darron between 1945 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 372 in 1965; its best national rank was #408 in 1965.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,739 in 2020 to #6,891 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,603 in 2015 to #6,891 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 Darron?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,891
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Darron 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darron. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Darrons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Darron was born before 1977 — so the typical Darron is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
31.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,142
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Choose a decade

1960s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (1,938).

Is Darron 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
−1,410
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,152
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,288
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.2%
Peak was 1965 (372)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#408
1965

Spellings of Darron

Darron is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 31.2% against Darron's 0.31%.

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 Darron is used

Across 1910–2025, Darron was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 43,071 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 11,111
  2. 2Alabama1 in 14,286
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 16,667
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 16,667
  5. 5Missouri1 in 20,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 25,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 33,333

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

Darron around the world

Where Darron 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
    1996–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    1974–1992
    #380
    in 1992
  • Ireland
    1971–1990
    #323
    in 1990
  • South Australia
    1961–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office 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.

Notable people named Darron

People whose public names include Darron, 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.

Darron by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,891
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,152
Best rank ever
#408
1965
Peak year
1965
372 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,190
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Darron

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

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Names with a curve like Darron

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

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Sibling names for Darron

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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