Darron

maleStatistical record

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

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

Darron: Recorded since 1971, it reached #260 in 1981, and it stood at #4,789 in 2022.

2registrars recorded it
15times a registrar ranked it
52years from first to last
#260highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2022

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2357
1999	#2943
2005	#3849
2008	#3687
2009	#3744
2010	#4678
2015	#3908
2022	#4789

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 8 of the 27 years from 1996 to 2022.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1971–2022 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1971
First recorded at #304 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1971 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1971–1990
Highest recorded position: #260 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1981 (recorded 1971–1990).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2022
Most recently recorded at #4789 among boys in England and Wales, in 2022.
England and Wales · Boys

Darron appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 8 ranked years and 28 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1971.

Darron across 2 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.

Darron'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 · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#2357 (1996)	#4789 (2022)	8 of 27	28 (1996–2022)	4 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#304 (1971)	#260 (1981)	#323 (1990)	7 of 20	25 (1971–1990)	5 (1981)

Darron by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Darron in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	11	3 of 10	4
2010s	7	2 of 10	4
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

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

Darron 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 2 regions, from 1971 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #260 in Republic of Ireland in 1981.

Darron'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
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#323	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#274	4	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#260	5	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#326	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#304	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1971 and 2022, ranked in 15 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #260, first reached in 1981.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 5 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1981.

Its record falls into 11 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 25 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.

6decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 6 decades →
3 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
11separate stretches the record falls into10 or more separate stretches →
6 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#4,789position in 2022, its most recent recorded year
25 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
5births registered in its largest year, 1981Under 25 births →

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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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Bernadine · #262, 19y
Antoin · #263, 20y
Mildred · #257, 20y
Aloysius · #256, 12y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Demelza · #260, 34y
Fleur · #260, 33y
Janniche · #260, 18y
Fredrikke · #261, 41y

Darron was ranked #260 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1981. 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.

Darron 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 Darron without appearing here.

Darron moved ahead of

Kim Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4678 and #3865 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3908 and #4747.
Tayla Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3744 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3908 and #4747.

Moved ahead of Darron

Erin Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2357 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2943 and #1383.
Aria Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3908 and #4747 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #3449.
Hudson Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2357 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2943 and #1850.
Theodor Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2357 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2943 and #2425.

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 2 regions, from 1971 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #260 in Republic of Ireland in 1981. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Darron

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Darron across 2 official records

Darron by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Darron appears in

Popularity data

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Darron

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Darron at a glance

Darron across 2 official records

Darron by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Darron

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