Darwin
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #13,793 · #960 for boys in 2025, 241 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1938 · 338 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 26,347since 1881
Darwin over time
Rank among boys' names. Darwin has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #960 | 241 | |
| 2024 | — | #838 | 293 | |
| 2023 | — | #970 | 228 | |
| 2022 | — | #982 | 229 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,081 | 196 | |
| 2020 | — | #905 | 248 | |
| 2019 | — | #957 | 223 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #907 | 237 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #833 | 266 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #855 | 263 |
| 2015 | — | #869 | 256 | |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #909 | 236 |
| 2013 | — | #829 | 259 | |
| 2012 | — | #855 | 248 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #773 | 291 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #732 | 313 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #740 | 314 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #785 | 280 |
| 2007 | — | #820 | 261 | |
| 2006 | — | #781 | 266 | |
| 2005 | — | #866 | 212 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #820 | 217 |
| 2003 | — | #871 | 197 | |
| 2002 | — | #901 | 179 | |
| 2001 | — | #878 | 180 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,006 | 146 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,058 | 129 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,023 | 132 | |
| 1997 | — | #966 | 136 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,127 | 105 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #1,014 | 120 |
| 1994 | — | #943 | 137 | |
| 1993 | — | #921 | 136 | |
| 1992 | — | #956 | 126 | |
| 1991 | — | #882 | 143 | |
| 1990 | — | #910 | 128 | |
| 1989 | — | #814 | 148 | |
| 1988 | — | #836 | 129 | |
| 1987 | — | #870 | 115 | |
| 1986 | — | #880 | 106 | |
| 1985 | — | #877 | 107 | |
| 1984 | — | #784 | 122 | |
| 1983 | — | #895 | 96 | |
| 1982 | — | #957 | 88 | |
| 1981 | — | #800 | 120 | |
| 1980 | — | #804 | 119 | |
| 1979 | — | #858 | 102 | |
| 1978 | — | #831 | 106 | |
| 1977 | — | #786 | 118 | |
| 1976 | — | #905 | 84 | |
| 1975 | — | #747 | 125 | |
| 1974 | — | #677 | 144 | |
| 1973 | — | #665 | 144 | |
| 1972 | — | #675 | 142 | |
| 1971 | — | #600 | 191 | |
| 1970 | — | #563 | 207 | |
| 1969 | — | #474 | 260 | |
| 1968 | — | #444 | 297 | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | #437 | 299 |
| 1966 | — | #415 | 332 | |
| 1965 | — | #403 | 383 | |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | #426 | 354 |
| 1963 | — | #429 | 347 | |
| 1962 | — | #404 | 398 | |
| 1961 | — | #408 | 374 | |
| 1960 | — | #398 | 392 | |
| 1959 | — | #399 | 397 | |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | #380 | 418 |
| 1957 | — | #396 | 382 | |
| 1956 | — | #389 | 371 | |
| 1955 | — | #390 | 343 | |
| 1954 | — | #400 | 320 | |
| 1953 | — | #397 | 313 | |
| 1952 | — | #398 | 299 | |
| 1951 | — | #378 | 323 | |
| 1950 | — | #377 | 324 | |
| 1949 | — | #386 | 302 | |
| 1948 | — | #395 | 295 | |
| 1947 | — | #369 | 350 | |
| 1946 | — | #378 | 298 | |
| 1945 | — | #390 | 235 | |
| 1944 | — | #343 | 303 | |
| 1943 | — | #334 | 332 | |
| 1942 | — | #336 | 326 | |
| 1941 | — | #345 | 283 | |
| 1940 | — | #320 | 309 | |
| 1939 | — | #306 | 332 | |
| 1938 | — | #297 | 338 | |
| 1937 | — | #309 | 299 | |
| 1936 | — | #305 | 304 | |
| 1935 | — | #299 | 330 | |
| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 | #314 | 300 |
| 1933 | #3,406 | 7 | #308 | 300 |
| 1932 | — | #330 | 281 | |
| 1931 | — | #339 | 259 | |
| 1930 | — | #332 | 280 | |
| 1929 | — | #332 | 278 | |
| 1928 | — | #367 | 252 | |
| 1927 | — | #377 | 242 | |
| 1926 | — | #426 | 202 | |
| 1925 | — | #398 | 225 | |
| 1924 | — | #414 | 218 | |
| 1923 | — | #409 | 215 | |
| 1922 | — | #445 | 188 | |
| 1921 | — | #415 | 214 | |
| 1920 | — | #459 | 174 | |
| 1919 | — | #481 | 155 | |
| 1918 | — | #472 | 156 | |
| 1917 | — | #497 | 133 | |
| 1916 | — | #464 | 150 | |
| 1915 | — | #466 | 139 | |
| 1914 | — | #579 | 75 | |
| 1913 | — | #503 | 74 | |
| 1912 | — | #608 | 45 | |
| 1911 | — | #732 | 19 | |
| 1910 | — | #707 | 18 | |
| 1909 | — | #893 | 11 | |
| 1908 | — | #825 | 11 | |
| 1907 | — | #815 | 11 | |
| 1906 | — | #1,004 | 7 | |
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | #874 | 8 | |
| 1903 | — | #1,130 | 5 | |
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | #779 | 8 | |
| 1900 | — | #1,310 | 5 | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | #804 | 8 | |
| 1897 | — | #852 | 7 | |
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | #1,035 | 5 | |
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | #722 | 8 | |
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | #971 | 5 | |
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | #943 | 5 | |
| 1881 | — | #866 | 5 | |
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Darwin! It came in at #866, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1888, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Darwin
- 122 spots since 2024 (#838 → #960)
- 55 spots since 2020 (#905 → #960)
- 91 spots since 2015 (#869 → #960)
- Biggest jump: 531 spots in 1901 (#1,310 → #779)
- Biggest drop: 176 spots in 2021 (#905 → #1,081)
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 1938 at #297 (338 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 34 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 121 yrs · run 1907–1994
- Highest: 1 in 3,156 boys born in 1935 were named Darwin (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,087 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #297 in 1938, was only 1 in 3,282 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 13.2% of all boys named Darwin (3,490) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 23 | #722 (1889) | #876 |
| 1890s | 20 | #804 (1898) | #897 |
| 1900s | 66 | #779 (1901) | #954 |
| 1910s | 964 | #464 (1916) | #551 |
| 1920s | 2,208 | #332 (1929) | #404 |
| 1930s | 3,023 | #297 (1938) | #314 |
| 1940s | 3,033 | #320 (1940) | #360 |
| 1950s | 3,490 | #377 (1950) | #390 |
| 1960s | 3,436 | #398 (1960) | #424 |
| 1970s | 1,363 | #563 (1970) | #731 |
| 1980s | 1,150 | #784 (1984) | #852 |
| 1990s | 1,292 | #882 (1991) | #980 |
| 2000s | 2,252 | #740 (2009) | #847 |
| 2010s | 2,592 | #732 (2010) | #852 |
| 2020s | 1,435 | #838 (2024) | #956 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Darwin in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 351,813 of them was named Darwin, which outranked 14.4% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 6,527 of them was named Darwin, which outranked 94.6% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).