girls:
194 births since 1950
#5522 (3rd percentile)
boys:
10.8k births since 1922
#1120 (76th percentile)
overall:
11k births since 1922
#2512 (68th percentile)
The name Daren is the #2,512 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,969 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 67.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,120 (75.6% percentile) for all time with 10,775 births since 1922. For girls, it ranks #5,522 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 194 births since 1950.
Daren first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 1950 for girls). Birth data for Daren is available in 95 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (95 years for boys and 25 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Daren has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Daren reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 58.9% percentile (ranked #265) with 402 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 402 births per million (ranked 58.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Daren ranks #879 for boys (3.5% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 5.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Daren reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #757) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Daren".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Daren. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.4% confident that Daren is pronounced as DEH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-ruhn, at 15.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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