girls:
132 births since 1959
#5584 (2nd percentile)
boys:
29.5k births since 1947
#673 (85th percentile)
overall:
29.7k births since 1947
#1482 (81st percentile)
The name Darrin is the #1,482 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,679 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 80.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #673 (85.3% percentile) for all time with 29,547 births since 1947. For girls, it ranks #5,584 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 132 births since 1959.
Darrin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (1947 for boys and 1959 for girls). Birth data for Darrin is available in 76 out of the 77 years between 1947 and 2023 (76 years for boys and 17 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 Darrin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Darrin reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 84.3% percentile (ranked #102) with 1,718 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 1,718 births per million (ranked 84.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1989, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Darrin ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 0.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darrin reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #744) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darrin".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Darrin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.2% confident that Darrin is pronounced as DA-rihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-rihn, at 40.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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