Name meaning & stats
Darlene
Darlene means “darling”. 170,940 US babies since 1940, peak 1958.
What it means
“darling”
Well documented
A modern coinage.
In US birth records
Peak year: 1958
170,940 US babies were named Darlene between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Darlene (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 91% of the family
- Darlene 91%
- Darleen 3%
- Darline 2%
- Darlyn 1%
- Darlin 1%
- Darlean <1%
- Darlyne <1%
- Darilyn <1%
- Darlynn <1%
- Daralyn <1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1958)