Darlene

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Darlene is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 2 Especially Australian and North American: modern coinage, an alteration of the affectionate term of address Darling, by fusion with the suffix -lene, found as an ending in other girls’ names.

rarermore common
  • CACanada1 in 1.5K◐
  • IEIreland1 in 2K
  • SGSingapore1 in 2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈165K ●

across 5 countries

Sources
470 ●

2.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.3K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin●

2 Especially Australian and North American: modern coinage, an alteration of the affectionate term of address Darling, by fusion with the suffix -lene, found as an ending in other girls’ names. Variant: Darleen.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Darlene is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#267145,7761.7M rec.1 in 2.3K146KDarlene470
GB United Kingdom#33589,27889K rec.—4Darlene92
CA Canada#23954,38152K rec.—2Darlene175
AU Australia#52828,75928K rec.—4Darlene137
BR Brazil—19,281△14 rec.1 in 11K21KDarlene7
PH Philippines—16,87714K rec.——Darlene103
IT Italy#49413,06513K rec.—1Darlene35
DE Germany—8,1037.9K rec.——Darlene82
SG Singapore#1315,3565.4K rec.——Darlene31
RU Russia—5,1395.2K rec.——Darlene19
IE Ireland#2234,7774.8K rec.——Darlene25
EG Egypt—3,4373.4K rec.——Darlene18

Roughly 146K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.3K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2.1M74%
  • Portuguese307K11%
  • 113K4%
  • Spanish89K3%
  • French19K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,072,62174%
Portuguese307,45011%
113,3494%
Spanish89,2603%
French19,1271%

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◐

Darlene is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name435K records spelled Darlene9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, France, Philippines

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French

    Also written Darlène, Dárlene, Darléne

  • a separate given name126K records spelled Darlene3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Darléne, Darlène

  • Polish given name11K records spelled Darlene22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Darleen, Дарлин, Darlin, Дарлін, Дарлене

  • Indonesian given name4.5K records spelled Darlene4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written Darlène

  • Italian given name3.6K records spelled Darlene4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, San Marino

    Also written Darlène, Därlënë, Dårlënë

  • Turkish given name1.1K records spelled Darlene3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Darlène

52 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●

Darlene is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • y masculino

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • English (esp. Australia and U.S.): modern coinage, apparently representing an alteration of the affectionate nickname Darling by fusion with the suffix - lene , found as an ending in other female given names.

    as a word

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●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900195020008.3K · 1958

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Darlene in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1896–2025
Yearrecords
18965
18996
19019
19028
19038
190411
19056
19066
190712
190814
190918
191019
191120
191230
191350
191481
191589
1916131
1917170
1918181
1919229
1920275
1921384
1922423
1923493
1924638
1925741
1926875
19271,109
19281,186
19291,302
19301,543
19311,822
19322,020
19332,408
19342,605
19352,703
19362,962
19373,285
19383,321
19393,287
19403,120
19413,344
19423,517
19433,774
19443,532
19453,626
19464,662
19475,255
19484,692
19494,799
19504,830
19515,030
19525,427
19535,591
19545,510
19555,641
19566,919
19577,784
19588,278
19596,876
19606,093
19615,728
19625,107
19635,153
19645,175
19654,356
19663,728
19673,069
19682,658
19692,460
19702,175
19711,824
19721,416
19731,161
19741,019
1975905
1976827
1977772
1978718
1979667
1980653
1981639
1982584
1983527
1984459
1985471
1986451
1987441
1988482
1989477
1990506
1991466
1992378
1993370
1994344
1995272
1996283
1997249
1998256
1999224
2000273
2001266
2002251
2003203
2004236
2005225
2006244
2007223
2008236
2009215
2010208
2011196
2012217
2013187
2014171
2015160
2016144
2017146
2018134
2019122
2020110
2021103
2022108
2023108
2024113
2025108

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 127 years between 1896–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Darlene Hunt, b. 1901Darlene Conley, b. 1934Darlene Hard, b. 1936Darlene Love, b. 1941Darlene Cates, b. 1947Yvonne Cagle, b. 1959Darlene Vogel, b. 1962Darline Graham, b. 1964Darlene Zschech, b. 1965Darlene Naponse, b. 1973

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●

Attested in 66 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Darlene
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020146K#382
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—21K#1,373
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202219K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—19K#1,092
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2009295#2,483
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020168#382
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—130#4,722
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—113#1,092
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025108—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—82#8,818
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—77#19,416
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—65#9,892

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 592 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Darlene?
We estimate roughly 165 thousand people bear Darlene (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Darlene have the most bearers?
We estimate about 146 thousand people bear Darlene in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled darlene.
How common is Darlene compared with other names?
In the United States, Darlene is the 267th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Darlene a male or female name?
Darlene is a female 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 Darlene mean?
Recorded meaning: 2 Especially Australian and North American: modern coinage, an alteration of the affectionate term of address Darling, by fusion with the suffix -lene, found as an ending in other girls’ names.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Darlene” — the 267th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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