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Darshan

#5,661 in 2025Boys' name

Seeing, observing, understanding

Darshan has been given to 784 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #5,661 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Darshan, 2025

1 in 207,000

Darshan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Darshan: meaning, origin, and history

Seeing, observing, understanding

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Darshan means

Darshan means “seeing, observing, understanding”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 773 boys were recorded with the name Darshan between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1999; its best national rank was #2,659 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,762 in 2020 to #5,661 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,921 in 2015 to #5,661 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Darshan between 1971 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1975; its best national rank was #8,219 in 1975.

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 Darshan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,661
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Darshan 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darshan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Darshans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Darshan was born before 2003 — so the typical Darshan is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
773
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Choose a decade

2000s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (210).

Is Darshan 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
+874
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+101
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−740
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.3%
Peak was 1999 (30)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,659
1975

Spellings of Darshan

Darshan is not the most common spelling — Darian is, with 29.9% against Darshan's 1.4%.

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 Darshan is used

Across 1910–2025, Darshan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,365,400 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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

Darshan around the world

Where Darshan 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
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2025
    #2,825
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2016
    #2,204
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1976–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Darshan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,661
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 101
Best rank ever
#2,659
1975
Peak year
1999
30 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
773
Count in 2025
16

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,219
1975
Peak year
1975
6 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Darshan

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

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Sibling names for Darshan

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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