Darla

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Darla: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Darla: Recorded since 2001, its highest recorded position is #184, reached in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
42times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#184highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#2226
2002	#2868
2003	#3099
2004	#2278
2005	#2970
2006	#4157
2007	#3667
2008	#3397
2010	#1731
2011	#2275
2012	#1991
2013	#1707
2014	#1501
2015	#984
2016	#1689
2017	#814
2018	#745
2019	#778
2020	#597
2021	#513
2022	#433
2023	#389
2024	#408

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 23 of the 24 years from 2001 to 2024.

In 2024: #192 among girls in Northern Ireland, #207 among girls in Scotland, #243 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #408 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2001–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2001
First recorded at #2226 among girls in England and Wales in 2001 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2014–2025
Highest recorded position: #184 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025 (recorded 2014–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #184 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Darla appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 2001, and has registered 780 births with the name.

Darla across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Darla's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2226 (2001)	#389 (2023)	#408 (2024)	23 of 24	780 (2001–2024)	106 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#451 (2012)	#192 (2024)	#192 (2024)	7 of 13	33 (2012–2024)	9 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#752 (2014)	#184 (2025)	#184 (2025)	11 of 12	119 (2014–2025)	25 (2025)

Darla by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Darla in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	46	8 of 10	6
2010s	280	10 of 10	28
2020sbusiest	454	5 of 10	91

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 91 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 29, from 18 to 47.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Darla appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2001 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #184 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Darla's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#408	105	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#389	106	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#433	98	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#513	80	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#597	65	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#778	48	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#745	53	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1689	18	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#984	36	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1707	17	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1991	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2275	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1731	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#192	9	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#266	6	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#298	5	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#451	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#184	25	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#243	17	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#237	17	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#338	12	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#430	9	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#375	10	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#361	12	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#651	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#207	18	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 2001 and 2025, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #184, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 106 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 23 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Darlene · #432, 19y
Darragh · #11, 61y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Esmee · #185, 29y
Romeo · #185, 28y
Coen · #186, 24y
Franciszek · #182, 24y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Aizah · #182, 23y
Ea · #179, 24y
Nikodem · #179, 22y
Ariya · #190, 22y

Darla was ranked #184 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Darla and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Darla without appearing here.

Darla moved ahead of

Finlay Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3397 and #3005 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1731 and #5707.
Geraldine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3397 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1731 and #5707.
Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3397 and #3397 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1731 and #5707.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1731 and #5707.

Moved ahead of Darla

Éala Compare
In 2018 they stood at #361 and #411 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2019 that had become #716 and #180.
Harper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2278 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #2970 and #2682.
Fiadh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #389 and #404 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #408 and #374.

Moved the opposite way to Darla

Abigail Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Darla went from #2226 to #408 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Darla went from #2226 to #408 while Aimee went from #72 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Darla went from #2226 to #408 while Aisling went from #514 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Darla went from #2226 to #408 while Alex went from #172 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Darla

Ada Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Darla went from #2226 to #408 and Ada from #1520 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Darla went from #2226 to #408 and Alma from #1728 to #234.
Amalie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Darla went from #2226 to #408 and Amalie from #3998 to #1128.
Amelia Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Darla went from #2226 to #408 and Amelia from #32 to #2.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2001 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #184 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Darla

Darla at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Darla across 3 official records

Darla by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Darla appears in

Popularity data

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Darla at a glance

Darla across 3 official records

Darla by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Darla appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Darla

Darla and the names beside it

Darla moved ahead of

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