Darien
Darien was given to 125 boys in 2025, #1,436 among boys’ names; 12,826 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,300 Americans named Darien and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darien by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Darien mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Darien is “a male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Darian.”
Also “a female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Darian.”
/ˈdɛ.ɹi.ən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Darien?
#1,436 among boys’ names, 2025
Darien fell from #1,050 in 2015 to #1,436 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 98.6 to 73.2 per million.
771 babies in 1994, the peak
Darien peaked in 1994, when 771 babies were given it (607 boys, #383 among boys’ names). The 125 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 125 | #1,436 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,843 | 158 | #1,251 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 131 | #1,404 | |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,554 | 120 | #1,508 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 132 | #1,385 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,686 | 135 | #1,328 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,227 | 151 | #1,245 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,797 | 144 | #1,277 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 174 | #1,110 | |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,267 | 182 | #1,081 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 189 | #1,050 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,197 | 212 | #983 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,516 | 198 | #996 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,839 | 210 | #960 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,444 | 241 | #872 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,656 | 215 | #936 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,145 | 236 | #888 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,401 | 255 | #846 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,639 | 284 | #773 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,186 | 243 | #834 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,482 | 259 | #765 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,032 | 250 | #746 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,368 | 326 | #629 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,825 | 327 | #612 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,414 | 330 | #599 |
| 2000 | 64 | #2,406 | 378 | #556 |
| 1999 | 93 | #1,734 | 385 | #537 |
| 1998 | 116 | #1,472 | 341 | #574 |
| 1997 | 127 | #1,353 | 344 | #559 |
| 1996 | 128 | #1,331 | 342 | #549 |
| 1995 | 175 | #1,034 | 424 | #500 |
| 1994 | 164 | #1,096 | 607 | #383 |
| 1993 | 140 | #1,236 | 533 | #424 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,910 | 281 | #613 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,683 | 178 | #764 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,548 | 148 | #838 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,802 | 148 | #812 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,518 | 84 | #1,081 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,134 | 63 | #1,219 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,822 | 57 | #1,286 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,560 | 57 | #1,268 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,942 | 56 | #1,227 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 62 | #1,147 | |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,619 | 63 | #1,153 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 61 | #1,179 | |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,402 | 50 | #1,327 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 56 | #1,226 | |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,989 | 56 | #1,190 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,690 | 37 | #1,520 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,751 | 51 | #1,212 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 46 | #1,262 | |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,866 | 36 | #1,442 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,674 | 51 | #1,152 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,063 | 54 | #1,111 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,126 | 55 | #1,101 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,484 | 69 | #969 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,087 | 49 | #1,114 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,889 | 67 | #879 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,585 | 66 | #888 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,785 | 79 | #822 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,922 | 106 | #721 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,411 | 53 | #1,039 |
| 1963 | under 5 | 32 | #1,380 | |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,956 | 31 | #1,406 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,820 | 24 | #1,649 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,845 | 17 | #1,983 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,291 | 12 | #2,443 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,258 | 11 | #2,534 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,179 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,530 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,833 | 7 | #3,263 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,259 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,002 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,197 | 8 | #2,918 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,462 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,474 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 7 | #3,077 | |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,400 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,063 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,076 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,689 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,703 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,380 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,889 | under 5 |
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 Darien a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 12,826 Americans recorded as Darien, 14% are girls and 86% boys. In 2025 it went to 125 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Darien: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darien, and how old are they?
12,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 12,826 Americans ever recorded as Darien. The median Darien alive today is 27 years old; half are between 18 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 10,157 people named Darien (1,645 women and girls, 8,512 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,709 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 289 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 930 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,830 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,090 |
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 Darien born?
The states with the most babies named Darien are California, Florida and Texas, with 59% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,259 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 15 | #920 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,360 | 0.8× |
| New York | 8 | #1,328 | 1.2× |
| Arizona | 7 | #795 | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 5 | #830 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,060 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,126 | 0.8× |
Where Darien is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darien is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1937 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 Darien 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, Darien is the fifth most given (5.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 125 of their 759 babies (16%), the third 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 Darien
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 Darien and names like it
- Compare Darien and DarrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDarien peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darien since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Darien: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Darien.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Darien alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.