Darien — #1250 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Darien

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,851 babies named Darien between 1949 and 2024, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Darien currently holds the #1250 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 607 babies received it in a single year. Darien is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,849 additional births since 1937.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Darien performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 3,583 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Darien shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,000 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Darien in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Darien 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 10,851 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.