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How popular is “Darlene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Darlene” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Darlene” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Darlene” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Darlene” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Darlene” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Darlene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Darlene” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1896 5 0.000013987 5 100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 100%
1901 9 0.000026026 9 100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 100%
1903 8 0.000020986 8 100%
1904 11 0.000027262 11 100%
1905 6 0.000014154 6 100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 100%
1907 12 0.000025785 12 100%
1908 14 0.00002865 14 100%
1909 18 0.00003521 18 100%
1910 19 0.000032165 19 100%
1911 20 0.000031043 20 100%
1912 30 0.000030362 30 100%
1913 50 0.000043971 50 100%
1914 81 0.000057189 81 100%
1915 89 0.000048569 89 100%
1916 131 0.000067721 131 100%
1917 170 0.000084714 170 100%
1918 181 0.000083367 181 100%
1919 229 0.000108518 229 100%
1920 275 0.000121539 275 100%
1921 384 0.000164489 384 100%
1922 423 0.000184784 423 100%
1923 493 0.000214117 493 100%
1924 638 0.000267886 638 100%
1925 741 0.000317576 741 100%
1926 875 0.000381113 875 100%
1927 1114 0.000480305 1109 5 99%
1928 1193 0.000527657 1186 7 99%
1929 1302 0.000593934 1302 100%
1930 1552 0.000698065 1543 9 99%
1931 1833 0.000871037 1822 11 99%
1932 2027 0.000960076 2020 7 99%
1933 2418 0.001209334 2408 10 99%
1934 2622 0.001262509 2605 17 99%
1935 2710 0.001296713 2703 7 99%
1936 2968 0.001428587 2962 6 100%
1937 3301 0.001549278 3285 16 99%
1938 3335 0.001507294 3321 14 99%
1939 3299 0.001497203 3287 12 99%
1940 3135 0.001361454 3120 15 99%
1941 3363 0.001380301 3344 19 99%
1942 3535 0.00129401 3517 18 99%
1943 3786 0.001341336 3774 12 99%
1944 3545 0.001317805 3532 13 99%
1945 3644 0.001373586 3626 18 99%
1946 4676 0.001463396 4662 14 99%
1947 5269 0.001462668 5255 14 99%
1948 4700 0.001361325 4692 8 100%
1949 4808 0.001379716 4799 9 100%
1950 4841 0.001381817 4830 11 100%
1951 5036 0.001367089 5030 6 100%
1952 5435 0.001431014 5427 8 100%
1953 5601 0.00145343 5591 10 100%
1954 5520 0.001386688 5510 10 100%
1955 5651 0.001407444 5641 10 100%
1956 6938 0.00168274 6919 19 99%
1957 7798 0.00185572 7784 14 100%
1958 8308 0.002009723 8279 29 99%
1959 6896 0.001658493 6875 21 99%
1960 6109 0.001470696 6092 17 99%
1961 5746 0.001387152 5729 17 99%
1962 5122 0.001269276 5107 15 99%
1963 5166 0.001305139 5154 12 100%
1964 5193 0.001335784 5173 20 99%
1965 4379 0.00120785 4358 21 99%
1966 3742 0.001076632 3728 14 99%
1967 3083 0.000908128 3068 15 99%
1968 2671 0.000790608 2658 13 99%
1969 2466 0.000709574 2460 6 100%
1970 2186 0.000606125 2175 11 99%
1971 1831 0.000533453 1824 7 99%
1972 1425 0.000453389 1416 9 99%
1973 1168 0.000387154 1162 6 99%
1974 1019 0.000335197 1019 100%
1975 915 0.000303041 905 10 98%
1976 832 0.000274198 827 5 99%
1977 772 0.000243035 772 100%
1978 718 0.000226222 718 100%
1979 667 0.000200481 667 100%
1980 653 0.000189577 653 100%
1981 640 0.000185005 640 100%
1982 583 0.000166193 583 100%
1983 527 0.000152165 527 100%
1984 459 0.000131566 459 100%
1985 471 0.000131966 471 100%
1986 451 0.000126789 451 100%
1987 441 0.000122309 441 100%
1988 482 0.000130445 482 100%
1989 484 0.000125896 477 7 97%
1990 506 0.000128021 506 100%
1991 466 0.000119632 466 100%
1992 378 0.000098405 378 100%
1993 370 0.000098136 370 100%
1994 344 0.000092531 344 100%
1995 272 0.000074273 272 100%
1996 283 0.000077594 283 100%
1997 249 0.000068675 249 100%
1998 256 0.000069599 256 100%
1999 224 0.000060641 224 100%
2000 273 0.000072224 273 100%
2001 266 0.000071059 266 100%
2002 251 0.000067143 251 100%
2003 203 0.000053388 203 100%
2004 236 0.000061765 236 100%
2005 225 0.00005852 225 100%
2006 244 0.000061676 244 100%
2007 223 0.000055782 223 100%
2008 236 0.000060041 236 100%
2009 214 0.000056018 214 100%
2010 208 0.000056281 208 100%
2011 196 0.000053584 196 100%
2012 217 0.000059332 217 100%
2013 187 0.000051294 187 100%
2014 171 0.000046137 171 100%
2015 160 0.000043233 160 100%
2016 144 0.000039251 144 100%
2017 146 0.000040826 146 100%
2018 134 0.000038113 134 100%
2019 122 0.000035149 122 100%
2020 110 0.000032928 110 100%
2021 103 0.000030402 103 100%
2022 108 0.000031923 108 100%
2023 108 0.000032617 108 100%
2024 111 0.000033348 111 100%

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