Darla

What Darla means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Darla yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1963, with 2,391 babies; 275 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Darla?

US: Rising: up from #1677 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #984 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1963, when 2,391 girls got the name (#165 that year). First in the US records in 1924.

How common

• About 1 in 5,845 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,043 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,376 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NV (0.54 per 1,000 girls), OK (0.47 per 1,000 girls), CO (0.39 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Darla is #941 in the US and #346 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Darla were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the UK pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Darly11 US
• Darlah6 US
• Darley0 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Darla

Girls

• Melody#79Editor’s note Up from #148 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 520 US girls in the 2025 records
• Iris#61“rainbow”^*
• Opal#423Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,110 in 2015, #423 in 2025
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• June#150From the word “name”^*
• Magnolia#124Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #634 in 2015, #124 in 2025

For a brother

• August#81“month of August”^*
• Briar#686Editor’s note Used for both: 34% of US babies named Briar in 2025 were boys
• Royal#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Sonny#298Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #822 in 2015, #298 in 2025
• Prince#447Editor’s note Down from #386 in 2015 to #447 in 2025 in the US
• Alden#598“old + friend”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Darla’s. Rank is US 2025.