girls:
569 births since 1956
#5147 (10th percentile)
boys:
103.5k births since 1936
#301 (93rd percentile)
overall:
104.1k births since 1936
#661 (91st percentile)
The name Darren is the #661 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 104,077 recorded births since 1936. This represents the 91.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #301 (93.5% percentile) for all time with 103,508 births since 1936. For girls, it ranks #5,147 (9.9% percentile) for all time with 569 births since 1956.
Darren first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1936 (1936 for boys and 1956 for girls). Birth data for Darren is available in 83 out of the 88 years between 1936 and 2023 (83 years for boys and 41 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 Darren has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Darren reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 92.1% percentile (ranked #52) with 3,134 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 3,134 births per million (ranked 92.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1987, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Darren ranks #695 for boys (23.7% percentile) with 121 births per million, which is 3.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darren reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #710) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darren".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Darren. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.9% confident that Darren is pronounced as DA-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-ruhn, at 38.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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