Daren

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Darren in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 18 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Daren is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name3.9K records spelled Daren3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, China

  Also written Da-Ren, Darén

• Russian given name204 records spelled Daren7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Kazakhstan, United Kingdom

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Дарен, Дарэн, Дарён

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Daren is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• born at night.

  as a name·African Names

• In Catalan, third-person plural preterite indicative of dar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Galician, third-person plural personal infinitive of dar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In enm, to lie still; to remain quiet; to lurk.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 97 years between 1922–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Daren Puppab. 1965CACanadian ice hockey player
• Daren Dochtermanb. 1967USAmerican illustrator and artist
• Daren Brownb. 1967USAmerican baseball player and manager
• Daren Kingb. 1972GBBritish novelist and children's writer
• Daren Powellb. 1978JMJamaican cricketer
• Daren Gangab. 1979TTWest Indian cricketer
• Daren Tanb. 1983SGSingaporean singer
• Daren Kagasoffb. 1987USAmerican actor
• Daren Liewb. 1987MYMalaysian badminton player
• Daren Batesb. 1990USAmerican football player, linebacker

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 404 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Daren?

We estimate roughly 89 thousand people bear Daren (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Daren have the most bearers?

Daren is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled darren.

How common is Daren compared with other names?

In the United Kingdom, Daren is the 116th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.

Is Daren a male or female name?

Daren is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Daren mean?

Recorded meaning: Hausa (West Africa): "born at night".