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Darleen

Darleen reached its high-water mark in 1958 at number 650, and has been recorded 8,332 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 9,457th. About 5,300 Darleens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Darleen

By the numbers

Total US births
8,332
Estimated living today
5,300
Median age today
66
Peak year
1958
Best rank
650th
Rank in 2025
9,457th
First recorded
1914

How old the living Darleens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 8,332 babies given the name since 1914, about 5,300 are alive — 63 in every hundred. Roughly 340 of them are children and 2,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Darleens

People named Darleen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Darleen is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Darleen is most concentrated in South Dakota (4.7×), Nebraska (3.6×), Minnesota (3.0×), Wisconsin (2.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1958

The most popular girls’ names the year Darleen peaked:

All the names of 1958

Related names

Darleen against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.