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Darvin

#3,863 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Darvin has been given to 3,708 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #3,863 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 72 recorded.

Babies named Darvin, 2025

1 in 118,000

Darvin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Darvin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Darvin means

Darvin is a given name.

The naming story behind Darvin

Wikidata records Darvin as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q60791407, 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, 3,708 boys were recorded with the name Darvin between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 72 in 1963; its best national rank was #882 in 1963.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,740 in 2020 to #3,863 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,922 in 2015 to #3,863 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 Darvin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,863
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Darvin 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darvin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Darvins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Darvin was born before 1965 — so the typical Darvin is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
14.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,629
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 14.5% of all recorded uses (538).

Is Darvin 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
+1,057
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−123
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,059
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.47×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.9%
Peak was 1963 (72)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#882
1963

Spellings of Darvin

Darvin is not the most common spelling — David is, with 65.9% against Darvin's 0.07%.

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 Darvin is used

Across 1910–2025, Darvin was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 182,659 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 100,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 100,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in —
  8. 8California1 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. Darvin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Darvin around the world

Where Darvin 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
    2012–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2010
    #5,916
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Darvin

People whose public names include Darvin, 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.

Darvin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Darvin. Linked forms have their own page here.

DarwinDerwin

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Darvin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,863
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 123
Best rank ever
#882
1963
Peak year
1963
72 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,708
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Darvin

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

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Names with a curve like Darvin

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

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Sibling names for Darvin

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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