Darlene

girls:

204.7k births since 1896

#195 (97th percentile)

boys:

604 births since 1927

#3982 (13th percentile)

overall:

205.3k births since 1896

#384 (95th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darlene".

1896 2023 18962023

Key Statistics

Total Births
204,719
Peak Births
8,279
Peak Year
1958
First Recorded
1896
Peak Percentile
93.7%
Current Percentile
10.8%
Peak Rank
#49
Current Rank
#845
Female statistics
Total Births
604
Peak Births
29
Peak Year
1958
First Recorded
1927
Peak Percentile
3.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#512
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Darlene

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Darlene. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 52.9% confident that Darlene is pronounced as DAHR-leen. The next most likely pronunciation is dahr-LEEN, at 27.5% confidence.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Darlene. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Darlene, please vote using the thumbs up button.

DAHR-lain (2 syllables)
2 names 6.5k births
D AA1 R L AY0 N

Names with this pronunciation:

DAH-ruh-leen (3 syllables)
3 names 387 births
D AA1 R AH0 L IY0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D AA1 R L IY0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.