Given name
Darinka
Darinka is a feminine given name. It is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Darinka is a variant of Daria. An origin associated with Daria is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Darinka through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 53
- 0 boys · 53 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 367 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Darinka’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Darinka is a diminutive of Darina. Darinka has a related form in Daria.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Darinka
- Darinka, Princess of MontenegroPrincess of Montenegro (1838–1892)
- Darinka DentchevaBulgarian-American mathematicianborn 1958
- Darinka RadovićYugoslav farmer and People's Hero of Yugoslavia (1896-1943)
- Darinka JevrićSerbian poet (1947-2007)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.