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Girl · English (modern coinage)
Darlene
Say it: dar-LEEN
Meaning
A 20th-century American coinage, probably from the word darling with the ending -ene.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Peaked in the US from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1950s
In the United States
- 205,004 babies given this name since 1896
- At its height in 1958, about 1 in 243 girls
- 110 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Darleen, Darline
Famous bearers
- Darlene Love, American singer
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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