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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Darling” in the USA?

Number of people named “Darling” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Darling” by birth year

This chart shows how “Darling” 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
1920 7 0.000003094 7 100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 100%
1948 12 0.000003476 12 100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 100%
1959 13 0.000003127 13 100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 100%
1981 13 0.000003758 13 100%
1982 14 0.000003991 14 100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 100%
1984 11 0.000003153 11 100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 11 0.000003092 11 100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1988 15 0.000004059 15 100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 100%
1990 13 0.000003289 13 100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 100%
1992 11 0.000002864 11 100%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 100%
1994 14 0.000003766 14 100%
1995 16 0.000004369 16 100%
1996 14 0.000003839 14 100%
1997 12 0.00000331 12 100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 100%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 100%
2002 16 0.00000428 16 100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 100%
2004 15 0.000003926 15 100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 100%
2006 19 0.000004803 19 100%
2007 21 0.000005253 21 100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 100%
2009 17 0.00000445 17 100%
2010 17 0.0000046 17 100%
2011 21 0.000005741 21 100%
2012 18 0.000004922 18 100%
2013 24 0.000006583 24 100%
2014 29 0.000007824 29 100%
2015 21 0.000005674 21 100%
2016 26 0.000007087 26 100%
2017 25 0.000006991 25 100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 100%
2019 32 0.000009219 27 5 69%
2020 35 0.000010477 35 100%
2021 28 0.000008265 28 100%
2022 22 0.000006503 22 100%
2023 33 0.000009966 33 100%
2024 52 0.000015623 47 5 81%

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