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Darshana

#15,467 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Darshan

Darshana has been given to 97 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #15,467 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Darshana, 2025

1 in 663,000

Darshana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Darshana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Darshan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Darshana means

Darshana is a feminine form of Darshan.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Darshana is used in Marathi.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Darshana → Darshan. The family’s meaning is “seeing, observing, understanding”, recorded in the naming reference for Darshan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Darshan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 97 girls were recorded with the name Darshana between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2023; its best national rank was #7,583 in 1971.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #13,341 in 2015 to #15,467 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 Darshana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,467
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Darshana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darshana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Darshanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Darshana was born before 1996 — so the typical Darshana is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
97
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Darshana 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
−4,119
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,126
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2023 (9)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,583
1971

Spellings of Darshana

Darshana is not the most common spelling — Dariana is, with 68.4% against Darshana's 1.5%.

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.

Darshana around the world

Where Darshana 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
    1997–1997
    #3,824
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Darshana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,467
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,583
1971
Peak year
2023
9 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
97
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Darshana

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

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Sibling names for Darshana

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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