Darla
Darla is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 244 births. Its best rank was 165th, in 1963.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2440.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19632,391 births
- Best rank
- #165in 1963
- Since 1924
- 43,389people given the name
The story in the numbers
43,389 girls have been named Darla in the United States since 1924, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 2,391 births — 0.12% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1960s alone account for 38%. It has spent 51 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Darla | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 33 | |
| 1930s | 1,206 | |
| 1940s | 4,229 | |
| 1950s | 9,599 | |
| 1960s | 16,340 | |
| 1970s | 5,382 | |
| 1980s | 1,996 | |
| 1990s | 968 | |
| 2000s | 1,059 | |
| 2010s | 1,587 | |
| 2020s | 990 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Darla was the 165th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1963 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Darla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Pennypeak 1963
- Suzypeak 1962
- Pennipeak 1962
- Penneypeak 1962
- Delindapeak 1964
- Sherriepeak 1962
- Gerripeak 1958
- Dedepeak 1961
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.