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How popular is “Darlin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Darlin” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Darlin” 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 “Darlin” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Darlin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Darlin” 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
1950 7 0.000001998 7 100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1979 10 0.000003006 10 100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 100%
1992 11 0.000002864 11 100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 100%
1994 15 0.000004035 15 100%
1995 14 0.000003823 14 100%
1996 18 0.000004935 18 100%
1997 14 0.000003861 14 100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 100%
1999 11 0.000002978 11 100%
2000 18 0.000004762 18 100%
2001 25 0.000006678 25 100%
2002 28 0.00000749 28 100%
2003 21 0.000005523 21 100%
2004 14 0.000003664 14 100%
2005 37 0.000009623 28 9 51%
2006 30 0.000007583 30 100%
2007 44 0.000011006 35 9 59%
2008 35 0.000008904 35 100%
2009 30 0.000007853 24 6 60%
2010 25 0.000006765 25 100%
2011 24 0.000006561 24 100%
2012 27 0.000007382 22 5 63%
2013 24 0.000006583 16 8 33%
2014 24 0.000006475 24 100%
2015 19 0.000005134 12 7 26%
2016 18 0.000004906 18 100%
2017 22 0.000006152 15 7 36%
2018 23 0.000006542 23 100%
2019 21 0.00000605 21 100%
2020 31 0.00000928 26 5 68%
2021 26 0.000007674 21 5 62%
2022 35 0.000010345 29 6 66%
2023 20 0.00000604 15 5 50%
2024 32 0.000009614 22 10 38%

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