Darlyn is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Darlyn is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Darlyn. In the SmartGenius ranking, Darlyn is #3,398 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Darlyn.
If your name is Darlyn your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Darlyn never ranked higher than position 1,494 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Darlyn. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1946 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Darlyn because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Darlyn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Darlyn still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 44 times in the entire U.S. So, a Darlyn from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Darlyn in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 541 women and girls named Darlyn, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 541 women and girls named Darlyn live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Florida, Maryland, New York and Ohio. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Darlyn. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Darlyn lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Darlyn and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Darlyn relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 37,754 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Darlyn.
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 Darlyn 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.
If your name is Darlyn 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 Darlyn, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Rocket
Lion
Yoyo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Darlyn
Darlyn
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
R
L
Y
N
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
Y
N
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. Darlyn sounds like this:
