Darren
26
Babies in 2024
-42%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 343
+24%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Darren
Darren peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (343 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 26 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Darren reached its peak in 1996, when 343 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #123 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 26 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,041 boys have been officially registered with the name Darren in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 353 boys were registered with the name, starting from 45 in 2014 and ending at 26 in 2024.