girls:
11 births since 1971
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
744 births since 1972
#3843 (16th percentile)
overall:
755 births since 1971
#6984 (10th percentile)
The name Darshan is the #6,984 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 755 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 9.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,843 (16.2% percentile) for all time with 744 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1971.
Darshan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1972 for boys). Birth data for Darshan is available in 47 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (46 years for boys and 2 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 Darshan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.5% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1972, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1971 to 1971), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (99.2% boys from 1972 to 2023).
For boys, Darshan reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #780) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Darshan ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 66.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darshan reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #752) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1975.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darshan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Darshan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.6% confident that Darshan is pronounced as DAHR-shuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAHR-shan, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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