Dârlîng

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dârlîng is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 18,879 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From English Darling, from darling.

  • USUnited States1 in 18K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 41K
  • NONorway1 in 391K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

18,879 people, 2010

Record sources
137 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Darling in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

From English Darling, from darling.

Cited for this meaning 7

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Scottish Surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Dârlîng is found

(measured from records)

Dârlîng counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Dârlîng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States18,8791 in 18K19KDarling137
DK Denmark1441 in 41K144——
ES Spain461 in 1.1M82—42
EC Ecuador≈26 est.≈1 in 702K1.6K—24
NO Norway141 in 391K18—2

18,879 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dârlîng under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dârlîng mean, and where does it come from?
From English Darling, from darling. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Scottish Surnames and 5 other sources.
Is Dârlîng a male or female name?
Dârlîng is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Dârlîng?
In the United States, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Dârlîng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled darling. After it come Denmark, Spain, Ecuador and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Dârlîng most common?
Dârlîng is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Dârlîng?
In the United States, the national register counted 18,879 people named Dârlîng in 2010, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A2rl%C3%AEng

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dârlîng” — ranked 1849th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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