Darwin
Darwin reached its high-water mark in 1958 at number 380, and has been recorded 26,436 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 960th. About 17,000 Darwins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Darwin boys named Darwin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 26,436
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1958
- Best rank
- 380th
- Rank in 2025
- 960th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 89 / 26,347
How old the living Darwins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 26,436 babies given the name since 1881, about 17,000 are alive — 64 in every hundred. Roughly 4,600 of them are children and 4,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From Middle English Darwin, Derwin, from Old English Dēorwine, composed of dēore + wine. The city in Australia is named after Charles Darwin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Darwins
- Darwin Núñez (born 1999)Uruguayan association football player
- Darwin Machís (born 1993)Venezuelan association football player
- Darwin Atapuma (born 1988)Road racing cyclist
- Darwin Quintero (born 1987)Colombian footballer
- Darwin Ceren (born 1989)Salvadoran footballer
- Darwin Andrade (born 1991)Colombian footballer
- Darwin Shaw (born 2000)British actor
People named Darwin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Darwin is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Darwin is most concentrated in South Dakota (8.6×), Iowa (5.3×), North Dakota (4.5×), Idaho (3.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1958
The most popular boys’ names the year Darwin peaked:
Darwin elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Darwin | 446 | 1,013th |
| France boys | Darwin | 240 | 981st |
| Switzerland boys | Darwin | 68 | 875th |
| Belgium boys | Darwin | 12 | 1,084th |
| England and Wales girls | Darwin | 11 | 4,634th |
| Scotland boys | Darwin | 7 | 548th |
| Ireland boys | Darwin | 6 | 596th |
| Poland boys | Darwin | 2 birth registrations | 732nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Darwin: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Darwin | 55 | 0.004% | 727th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Darwin | 13 | 0.003% | 426th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Darwin: rank by region
In 2024, Darwin was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Darwin | 487 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Darwin among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Darwin | 5 | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Darwin lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 445 men called Darwin were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guadalajara | Darwin | 5 | 0.034 | 1,398 |
| Lugo | Darwin | 5 | 0.032 | 1,289 |
| Balears, Illes | Darwin | 19 | 0.031 | 1,816 |
| Madrid | Darwin | 107 | 0.031 | 1,600 |
| Navarra | Darwin | 10 | 0.030 | 1,773 |
| Bizkaia | Darwin | 17 | 0.030 | 1,487 |
Listed in 20 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 32 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Darwin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.