girls:
43.1k births since 1924
#645 (89th percentile)
boys:
27 births since 1959
#4559 (1st percentile)
overall:
43.2k births since 1924
#1184 (85th percentile)
The name Darla is the #1,184 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 43,168 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 84.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #645 (88.7% percentile) for all time with 43,141 births since 1924. For boys, it ranks #4,559 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1959.
Darla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (1924 for girls and 1959 for boys). Birth data for Darla is available in 97 out of the 100 years between 1924 and 2023 (97 years for girls and 5 years for boys). 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 Darla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Darla reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 79.1% percentile (ranked #162) with 1,203 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 1,203 births per million (ranked 79.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Darla ranks #756 for girls (20.2% percentile) with 112 births per million, which is 9.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Darla reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #654) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1970.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darla".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Darla is pronounced as DAHR-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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