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The first name 
Darlin

Darlin is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.

Darlin – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Darlin in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Darlin in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Darlin by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Darlin ranks at #5,360. That means there are 5,359 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Darlin.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Darlin

Darlin -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Darlin. Girls named Darlin have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 3,322 Darlin ranked higher than ever in 1954. By comparison, there have been 94 years in which the first name Darlin has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1985. In general, parents name their daughters Darlin only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Darlin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Darlin in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Darlin continues to be a precious jewel: 35 newborns were named Darlin that year, ranking #3,640 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Darlin, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Darlin -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Darlin is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 169 Americans in total bear this name. And these 169 women are located in only three states: California, Florida and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Darlin and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Darlin in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 105,765 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Darlin.

Darlin has 6 letters 
and begins with a D

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 six letters, the name Darlin is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.

Other names with 
D, a, r, l, i and n

If you take all the letters in the name Darlin – D, a, r, l, i and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Arlind or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Darlin

If your name is Darlin 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...

This is how you spell the name Darlin

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Darlin, you can simply say:

Dinosaur

Apple

Rocket

Lion

Igloo

Nut

This is how the name Darlin is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Darlin in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Darlin

Darlin

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Darlin

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Darlin is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

D
A
R
L
I
N

Have you ever waved the name Darlin

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.

D
A
R
L
I
N

Beeping like crazy...

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. Darlin sounds like this: