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Darlean vs Darlene

American parents have registered 205,546 Darlenes since 1880, against 884 Darleans. Darlene is still ahead, with 108 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Darlean against Darlene, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Darlean Darlene

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Darlene has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1896 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1921, when Darlean had 6 and Darlene had 384.

Side by side

  Darlean Darlene
Total US births 884205,546
Most in one year 478,307
Babies in 2025 under 5108
Estimated living today 610143,000
Median age today 6667
Peak year 19581958
Best rank 1,557th girls49th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,844th
First recorded 19211896
Girls / boys 884 / 0204,942 / 604

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Darlean and Darlene.