girls:
89 births since 1933
#5627 (2nd percentile)
boys:
25.8k births since 1881
#714 (84th percentile)
overall:
25.9k births since 1881
#1573 (80th percentile)
The name Darwin is the #1,573 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,894 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 79.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #714 (84.4% percentile) for all time with 25,805 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,627 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 89 births since 1933.
Darwin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1933 for girls). Birth data for Darwin is available in 129 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (129 years for boys and 15 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 Darwin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Darwin reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 47.2% percentile (ranked #277) with 297 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 309 births per million (ranked 46.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Darwin ranks #690 for boys (24.3% percentile) with 124 births per million, which is 40.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darwin reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #571) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darwin".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Darwin is pronounced as DAHR-wihn, which has 2 syllables.
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