How rare is the name Darla?

34,954 people in the United States have the first name Darla, about 1 in 8,641. It ranks #1,145 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DARLA

#1,145

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
34,954
About
1 in 8,641
This common or more
71.9%
Who bears it

Of the 34,954 people named Darla, 86.5% reported their origin as White, 5.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.4% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Darla peaked in 1963, when 2,391 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19242025
Peak year
1963
Births that year
2,391
In 2025*
275 ▼88%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 43,694 babies have been given the name since 1924. 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.

Darla by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #380. The largest share of babies named Darla, 49.3%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1920s#8,77433
1930s#1,1161,206
1940s#6574,229
1950s#5069,605
1960s#38016,356
1970s#7385,387
1980s#1,4421,996
1990s#2,723968
2000s#3,2021,059
2010s#2,5711,588
2020s#2,1581,267
Greatest Generation 1901–270%
Silent Generation 1928–457.7%
Baby boom 1946–6449.3%
Generation X 1965–8028%
Millennials 1981–965.4%
Generation Z 1997–124.1%
2013 and later5.5%

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 Darla is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Darla has been most common in South Dakota (4.8×), Oklahoma (3.4×), and North Dakota (2.4×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.05×).

39,645 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 Darla

#1,143 Ignacio · 35,092#1,144 Stefanie · 34,972#1,146 Humberto · 34,796#1,147 Corinne · 34,767

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Darla, most common first.

#12,776 Darl · 964#17,498 Darly · 629#41,133 Darle · 179

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