Darin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Mainly U.S.: variant of Darren, associated with the singer Bobby Darin (1936-73), who was originally called Walden Robert Cassotto (A concise dictionary of first names)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 40 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Darin is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 27,677 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Darin is also written Дарин in Cyrillic.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 7.7Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 8.8K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 9.8Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Darin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 469 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
27,677 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Darin in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Mainly U.S.: variant of Darren, associated with the singer Bobby Darin (1936-73), who was originally called Walden Robert Cassotto. He chose the name that he made famous from the list of surnames in a telephone directory. Variant: Darrin. Darina ° Anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic name Dairine, meaning ‘fertile’, a feminine diminutive of Ddire (see Darragh).
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Darin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #901 | 27,677 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Darin | 469 |
| CA Canada | #882 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 1 | Darin | 167 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 4 | Darin | 117 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Darin | 29 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 4 | Darin | 122 |
| NZ New Zealand | #573 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | 12 | Darin | 49 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Darin | 62 |
| SG Singapore | #812 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Darin | 17 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 269as Дарин | 1 in 7.9K | 269 | — | 6 |
27,677 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); State Statistical Office — living population names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Darin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Darren.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Darin är ett namn med flera ursprung. Det är i vissa fall bildat till det nordamerikanska efternamnet Darren (jfr sångaren Bobby Darin). Som förnamn var Darin populärt i USA under 1960- och 1970-talet. Det finns också ett kurdiskt namn Darîn med betydelsen ’dyrbar gåva’. Sångaren Darin Zanyar (f. 1987) är en känd svensk namn bärare.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, Bobby, James, US entertainers
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Italian, grafia justaposta de Da Rin
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Basque, Third-person singular (hura), taking informal second-person singular feminine (hiri) as indirect object, present indicative form of jariatu (“to flow”).
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Darin Morganb. 1966USAmerican screenwriter
- Darin LaHoodb. 1968USAmerican politician from Illinois
- Darin Brooksb. 1984USAmerican actor
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)73 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 40 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Darin mean, and where does it come from?
- Mainly U.S.: variant of Darren, associated with the singer Bobby Darin (1936-73), who was originally called Walden Robert Cassotto. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Darin?
- In the etymology graph, Darren, Darrin and Daren are forms of the same name in other languages; Darian and Darion are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Darin a male or female name?
- Darin is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Finland (DVV).
- Which countries have the most people named Darin?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Darin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled darin. After it come Canada, United Kingdom, Philippines and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Darin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 27,677 people named Darin in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Darin compared with other names?
- In the United States, Darin is the 901st most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/darinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Darin” — ranked 1320th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.