Darian
Darian was given to 254 boys in 2025, #928 among boys’ names; 23,297 Americans have been recorded with it since 1939 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,600 Americans named Darian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 19 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Darian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Darian is “a unisex given name originating as a coinage.”
A 20th-century invention, possibly based on Darius or Dorian.
/ˈdɛɹi.ən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Darian?
#928 among boys’ names, 2025
Darian fell from #788 in 2015 to #928 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born held at 0.15 per 1,000.
1,543 babies in 1994, the peak
Darian peaked in 1994, when 1,543 babies were given it (674 boys, #358 among boys’ names). The 272 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,378 | 254 | #928 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,683 | 264 | #896 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,336 | 209 | #1,046 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,451 | 231 | #976 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,730 | 227 | #977 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,912 | 273 | #835 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,484 | 230 | #939 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,312 | 266 | #837 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,473 | 274 | #820 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,094 | 266 | #846 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,510 | 296 | #788 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,757 | 288 | #798 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,802 | 290 | #774 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,917 | 314 | #739 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,951 | 333 | #695 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,123 | 380 | #638 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,753 | 369 | #663 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,129 | 414 | #606 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,493 | 445 | #577 |
| 2006 | 79 | #2,380 | 412 | #598 |
| 2005 | 99 | #1,933 | 373 | #605 |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,736 | 421 | #548 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,397 | 448 | #523 |
| 2002 | 180 | #1,148 | 487 | #478 |
| 2001 | 214 | #1,002 | 561 | #433 |
| 2000 | 253 | #869 | 599 | #415 |
| 1999 | 308 | #730 | 564 | #416 |
| 1998 | 462 | #543 | 639 | #387 |
| 1997 | 572 | #444 | 596 | #394 |
| 1996 | 483 | #497 | 537 | #420 |
| 1995 | 680 | #390 | 594 | #394 |
| 1994 | 869 | #313 | 674 | #358 |
| 1993 | 523 | #482 | 565 | #411 |
| 1992 | 305 | #707 | 349 | #547 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,990 | 271 | #617 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,741 | 259 | #630 |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,195 | 190 | #714 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,237 | 100 | #962 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,513 | 82 | #1,053 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,741 | 58 | #1,269 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,089 | 81 | #1,011 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,986 | 80 | #994 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,904 | 80 | #987 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,636 | 80 | #1,015 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,964 | 82 | #1,004 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,354 | 92 | #929 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,464 | 111 | #828 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,516 | 153 | #676 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,270 | 177 | #637 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,952 | 149 | #674 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,644 | 143 | #692 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,865 | 168 | #621 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,413 | 156 | #635 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,344 | 148 | #660 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,600 | 212 | #555 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,331 | 206 | #566 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,781 | 157 | #630 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,553 | 56 | #987 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 50 | #1,034 | |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,954 | 56 | #972 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,945 | 67 | #901 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,730 | 26 | #1,551 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,202 | 21 | #1,749 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,820 | 22 | #1,718 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,972 | 14 | #2,261 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,237 | 18 | #1,919 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,138 | 11 | #2,560 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,988 | 10 | #2,678 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,007 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,934 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,007 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,760 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,730 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,957 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,784 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,730 | 6 | #3,246 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,496 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 7 | #2,888 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Darian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 23,297 Americans recorded as Darian, 27% are girls and 73% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Darian every year since 1996. In 2025 it went to 18 girls and 254 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Darian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darian, and how old are they?
22,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 23,297 Americans ever recorded as Darian. The median Darian alive today is 28 years old; half are between 19 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 18,136 people named Darian (5,395 women and girls, 12,741 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 21,313 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 198 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,020 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,940 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,550 |
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 Darian born?
The states with the most babies named Darian are Texas, California and Florida, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 63 | #560 | 1.1× |
| California | 36 | #736 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 24 | #666 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #722 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #955 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,015 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 7 | #794 | 1.0× |
| Maryland | 7 | #642 | 1.1× |
| New Mexico | 7 | #278 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,161 | 0.7× |
Where Darian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darian is most over-represented in Colorado: since 1939 it was given 1.3 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 boys’ 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 Darian 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 229,920 babies since 1880, Darian is the fourth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 272 of their 759 babies (36%), the 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 Darian
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 Darian and names like it
- Compare Darian and DarrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDarian peaked in 1994.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darian since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Darian: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Darian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Darian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.