Darah
Darah was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,377 among girls’ names; 1,085 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Darah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 17 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Darah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Darah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Darah?
#4,377 among girls’ names, 2025
Darah rose from #9,082 in 2015 to #4,377 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 19.9 per million.
35 babies in 1988, the peak
Darah peaked in 1988, when 35 girls were given it, #2,934 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,377 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,926 | 16.7 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,475 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,724 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,346 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,130 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,836 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,349 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,393 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,082 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,082 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,030 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,164 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,617 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,295 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,837 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,875 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,214 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,619 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,766 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,599 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,520 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,632 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,779 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,865 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,256 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,898 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,827 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,150 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,325 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,509 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,141 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,007 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,534 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,841 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,339 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,490 | 15.7 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,934 | 19.7 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,158 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,909 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,877 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,865 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,936 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,273 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,273 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,343 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,078 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,988 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,000 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,675 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,075 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,044 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,705 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,534 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,549 | 6.9 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,746 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,784 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,568 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,097 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,795 | 2.6 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,837 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,451 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,277 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,533 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darah, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,085 Americans ever recorded as Darah. The median Darah alive today is 30 years old; half are between 17 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 922 people named Darah (896 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 943 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 32 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 129 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 373 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 299 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 221 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Darah?
Darah is a less common spelling of Dara: SSA has recorded 1,085 Darah and 14,547 Dara since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,348 babies since 1880, Darah is the sixth most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 549 babies (5.8%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Darah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Darah and names like it
- Compare Darah and DaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDarah peaked in 1988.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darah since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Darah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Darah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.