Daria
Daria was given to 107 girls in 2025, #1,858 among girls’ names; 9,068 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,320 Americans named Daria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 19 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Daria mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Daria is “a female given name from Old Persian.”
Feminine form of Darius, of Old Persian origin. Name of an early Christian saint.
/ˈdɑːɹi.ə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Daria?
#1,858 among girls’ names, 2025
Daria fell from #1,699 in 2015 to #1,858 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 70.0 to 66.6 per million.
294 babies in 1998, the peak
Daria peaked in 1998, when 294 girls were given it, #741 among girls’ names. The 107 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | #1,858 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 101 | #1,958 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,909 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,796 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 96 | #2,010 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 101 | #1,896 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 113 | #1,806 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 124 | #1,677 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,042 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,019 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 125 | #1,699 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,926 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 86 | #2,175 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,104 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 124 | #1,694 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,723 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,644 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,689 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 141 | #1,596 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 143 | #1,533 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 142 | #1,480 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 147 | #1,416 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 144 | #1,385 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 162 | #1,236 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 142 | #1,350 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 180 | #1,132 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 262 | #825 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 294 | #741 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 215 | #923 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 179 | #1,038 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 127 | #1,306 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 109 | #1,456 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 109 | #1,462 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 122 | #1,356 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 95 | #1,593 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 101 | #1,521 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 91 | #1,551 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 74 | #1,721 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 67 | #1,764 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,822 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,291 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 76 | #1,505 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,701 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,492 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,680 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,611 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 91 | #1,351 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 78 | #1,464 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 90 | #1,295 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 69 | #1,501 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 96 | #1,202 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 82 | #1,301 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 89 | #1,203 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 73 | #1,369 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 124 | #1,003 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 126 | #990 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 90 | #1,177 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 84 | #1,178 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 73 | #1,258 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 83 | #1,174 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 77 | #1,230 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 106 | #1,053 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 136 | #900 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 139 | #897 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 133 | #929 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 134 | #915 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 138 | #883 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 102 | #1,038 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 132 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 121 | #914 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 117 | #907 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 121 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 93 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 96 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 96 | #946 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 72 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 83 | #981 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 84 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 93 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 50 | #1,221 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,293 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,582 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,731 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,501 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,641 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,495 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,768 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,442 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,213 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,216 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,460 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,732 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,839 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,611 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,961 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,752 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,844 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,064 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,398 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,432 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Daria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daria has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 101 years of records.
Girls and boys named Daria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daria, and how old are they?
8,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 9,068 Americans ever recorded as Daria. The median Daria alive today is 31 years old; half are between 19 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 11,948 people named Daria (11,828 women and girls, 120 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,930 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 64 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,620 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,360 |
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).
Where are babies named Daria born?
The states with the most babies named Daria are California, Illinois and Texas, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,675 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 13 | #714 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,698 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,952 | 0.7× |
| New York | 5 | #2,168 | 1.8× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,218 | 2.3× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,261 | 0.3× |
Where Daria is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daria is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1915 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Daria with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,348 babies since 1880, Daria is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 107 of their 549 babies (19%), again the second most given.
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 Daria
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 Daria and names like it
- Compare Daria and DaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDaria peaked in 1998.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daria since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Daria.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daria alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.