Darrin
Masculine
Darrin is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 29,615 boys against 132 girls since 1880.
Darrin is a name that arrived without an etymology and got famous anyway. It appears in twentieth-century English-speaking records with no earlier trail behind it, and then a television husband made it a household word for eight years.
How old is the name Darrin?
Darrin first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Darrin alive today was born around 1970, making them about 55 years old. About 26,500 people named Darrin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Darrin most popular?
Darrin peaked in 1965, reaching #102 nationally. Today it ranks #3379, 3,277 places below that high. See the whole 1965 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Darrin
Our story of Darrin starts in a decade when American names were being made rather than inherited, and a two-syllable shape with a soft ending was exactly what people wanted. Then a comedy about a witch married to an advertising man ran from 1964 for eight seasons, and the husband was called Darrin — and the chart shows the name's peak in the middle of that first year. Whether the show made the name or simply caught it at the right moment is not recoverable, but the two curves sit on top of each other.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No established origin. The most-repeated suggestions are an Irish surname, Ó Dubhthaigh, and a reshaping of Darrell, which is a Norman place name from Airelle. Neither is documented as the source of the given name. It appears in the twentieth century as something close to a coinage.
Pronouncing Darrin
DA-rin
Two syllables, stress on the first. Darrin, Darren, Darin and Daren are all said the same way in most accents.
Nicknames for Darrin
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1947
- Most boys named
- 19653,255 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #102reached in 1965
- Change vs 2023
- +30.8%34 in 2025, from 26
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Darrin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Darren in English — spelling variant
- Darin in English — spelling variant
- Daren in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Indiana, Texas, Georgia.
Darrins among us
people named Darrin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 50,238 born in 2025 was named Darrin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Darrin
- #3379
- Darrin on the 2025 chart
- #851
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Darrin went to 34 boys in 2025, but Darin, Darryn and Daryn are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 77, which makes it the 851st most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,528 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 22,183 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 50,238 for Darrin itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Duane test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Darrin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Duane climbed just as high around 1933, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Duane's path sketches the road Darrin is walking now.
Darrin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Darrin is headed
Darrin is easing off slowly — about 15% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Darrin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Darrin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A soft, even two-syllable shape that sits well with almost any surname.
- It is familiar without being common now, which is a difficult combination.
- No pronunciation ambiguity at all in English.
- At least four spellings were in simultaneous use, so it will be written wrongly often.
- It has no recovered meaning to offer.
- The name is tightly dated to the 1960s and 1970s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Darrins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 26,500 people named Darrin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Darrin?
- Darrin is the most-used spelling in US records — 34 of the 77 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Darin, Darryn and Daryn.
- How popular is the name Darrin in 2025?
- Darrin ranks #3379 among US boy names in 2025, with 34 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Darrin?
- About 1 in every 50,238 US boys born in 2025 was named Darrin — 34 in all.
- Will my child share the name Darrin with classmates?
- Darrin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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