Given name & surname · also Middle English
Darlington
“the settlement of Dēornōþ's people”
Darlington is a masculine given name, possibly from Middle English, ultimately from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Darlington possibly goes back to a word meaning “the settlement of Dēornōþ's people.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Darlington possibly comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Old English.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Possibly from Middle English Dearnington, from Old English Dēornōþingtūn.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2021. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Darlington through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 7 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 boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 308 as a first name in 2020; 2,712 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Darlington
- Darlington NagbeAmerican soccer playerborn 1990
- Darlington OmodiagbeNigerian footballerborn 1978
- Darlington NwokochaNigerian politicianborn 1967
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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