Darwin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: person from Darwen, Lancashire, or from the Old English personal name Deorwine ‘dear friend’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/d̪aɾwin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Darwin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 54th most common given name.
- ECEcuador1 in 296(measured from records)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 501
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 771
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 318 (measured from records)
- 1 in 296 (inferred from the name graph)
≈73,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Darwen, Lancashire, or from the Old English personal name Deorwine ‘dear friend’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Darwin, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Darwin 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #633 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Darwin | 101 |
| EC Ecuador | #106 | 57,020 | 1 in 296 | 57K | Darwin | 71 |
| VE Venezuela | #183 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 771 | — | Darwin | 68 |
| US United States | — | 21,720 | 1 in 15K | 22K | Darwin | 318 |
| CO Colombia | #344 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 8 | Darwin | 111 |
| HN Honduras | #54 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 501 | — | Darwin | 44 |
| PE Peru | #411 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Darwin | 91 |
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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Darwin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from the OE personal name Dēorwine ‘dear-friend’; first attested Derwen 1170 P (Ess)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Transferred use of the surname, which in turn probably derives from the Old English personal name Déorwine, composed of the elements déor ‘dear’, 61 DEBORAH
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A surname, especially referring to Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British naturalist and founder of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Charles, Brit, scientist; pi. name;
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, college, Cambridge Univ.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Darwin Jostonb. 1937USAmerican actor (1937-1998)
- Darwin Cookb. 1958USAmerican basketball player and coach (born 1958)
- Darwin Barneyb. 1985USAmerican baseball player
- Darwin Quinterob. 1987COColombian footballer
- Darwin Atapumab. 1988CORoad racing cyclist
- Darwin Cerenb. 1989MXSalvadoran footballer
- Darwin Andradeb. 1991COColombian footballer
- Darwin Machísb. 1993VEVenezuelan association football player
- Darwin Núñezb. 1999UYUruguayan association football player
- Darwin Shawb. 2000GBBritish actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 79 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 57K | #34 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 22K | #1,522 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 241 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 168 | #1,522 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 135 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 8 | #113 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 6 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Darwin mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Darwen, Lancashire, or from the Old English personal name Deorwine ‘dear friend’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Darwin a male or female name?
- Darwin 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.
- How do you pronounce Darwin?
- A machine transcription gives /d̪aɾwin/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Darwin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Darwin in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled darwin.
- Where is Darwin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Darwin is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 296 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Darwin?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 57,020 people named Darwin in 2024, about 1 in 296 residents.
- How common is Darwin compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Darwin is the 633rd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Darwin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/darwinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Darwin” — the 633rd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.