Darian — #902 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Darian

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,782 babies named Darian between 1939 and 2024, spanning 86 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Darian currently holds the #902 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 674 babies received it in a single year. Darian is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6,238 additional births since 1940.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Darian performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 5,048 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Darian shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,793 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Darian in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Darian 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 16,782 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.