first name
DARIN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 27,677 people named Darin, 80.8% reported their origin as White, 8.5% as Black and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Darin peaked in 1965, when 2,624 babies got the name.
At least 32,910 babies have been given the name since 1948. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Darin by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #424. The largest share of babies named Darin, 61.6%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Darin is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Darin has been most common in South Dakota (4.9×), North Dakota (4.8×), and Utah (3.3×), and least common in Alabama (0.24×).
29,668 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Darin
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Darin, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Darin ranks #31,685 of 156,621, with 782 people. See Darin as a last name
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