Darlene is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Darlene is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,389 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,388 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 199,528 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Darlene. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
#50 - this is the highest position Darlene has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Darlene reached this top position was in the last century, in 1958, when 8,303 newborn girls were named Darlene. But as our statistics show, Darlene has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1900, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Darlene is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Darlene was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 107 newborns were given the name Darlene, making them rank #1,691. Although the name Darlene was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Darlene are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Darlene is one of them. However, Darlene is not equally widespread in all states, but people in South Dakota seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,077 women called Darlene who live here are 0,407% of all female residents and push their name up to #60, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in South Dakota.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Darlene has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Darlene and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Darlene, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Rocket
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Darlene
Darlene
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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L
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Darlene sounds like this:
