# Darrin (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/darrin/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 29,747 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 29,615 / 132 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 18, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 6 | 6,156 |
| 1965 | 18 | 2,959 |
| 1966 | 10 | 4,249 |
| 1967 | 15 | 3,373 |
| 1968 | 12 | 4,044 |
| 1969 | 11 | 4,490 |
| 1970 | 6 | 7,261 |
| 1971 | 5 | 8,606 |
| 1973 | 5 | 8,713 |
| 1974 | 6 | 7,916 |
| 1975 | 5 | 9,398 |
| 1984 | 5 | 10,792 |
| 1985 | 6 | 9,584 |
| 1987 | 5 | 11,726 |
| 1995 | 5 | 13,953 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 84 | 1,740 |
| 2012 | 76 | 1,897 |
| 2013 | 80 | 1,798 |
| 2014 | 66 | 2,100 |
| 2015 | 57 | 2,306 |
| 2016 | 60 | 2,239 |
| 2017 | 65 | 2,113 |
| 2018 | 62 | 2,215 |
| 2019 | 46 | 2,741 |
| 2020 | 40 | 2,938 |
| 2021 | 45 | 2,787 |
| 2022 | 37 | 3,228 |
| 2023 | 26 | 4,139 |
| 2024 | 34 | 3,407 |
| 2025 | 34 | 3,393 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 4 | 2,337 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Darrin

- Darrin Govens, American basketball player
- Darrin Hancock, American basketball player (born 1971)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.