Dari — #6668 US unisex name
679 babies named Dari in U.S. Social Security records since 1945, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 62% of names given to girls today.
19% of everyone ever named Dari was born in this single decade.
33 babies were named Dari in 2021 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dari
The Social Security Administration has registered 679 babies named Dari between 1945 and 2024, spanning 80 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dari currently holds the #6668 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 33 babies received it in a single year. Dari is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 45 additional births since 2005.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dari performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 127 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Dari shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dari in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dari in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 679 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Dari at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dari popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1945
- Peak year (2021)
- 33
- Annual births at peak — across 80 years of records
Currently ranks #6668 among girls.
679 total births across 80 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2021 with 33 births in a single year.
Dari popularity over time — boys
45 total births recorded since 2005 (Dari as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Dari accounts for 6% of total recorded use across both genders.
Dari by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 127 births that decade — 19% of Dari's all-time total
Dari decade highlights
- Peak decade 127 births
- Runner-up 108 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Dari's strongest decade
127 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 19% of all-time use.
Dari by state
Where Dari concentrates geographically — total births since 1945
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Florida | | 6 | 0.9% |
6 of 679 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Florida 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Florida accounts for 0.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1945–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.