Darik
Darik was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 520 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darik?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,627, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1990, the peak
Darik peaked in 1990, when 21 boys were given it, #2,973 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #12,627 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,750 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,615 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,034 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,693 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,163 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,096 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,988 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,545 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,332 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | #9,151 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,946 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,166 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,948 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,295 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,209 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,282 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,855 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,894 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,947 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,058 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,938 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,840 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 21 | #2,973 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,842 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #2,985 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,019 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,952 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,245 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,723 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,596 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,746 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,221 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,636 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,688 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,661 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,245 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 13 | #2,976 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,029 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,743 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,773 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,063 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,418 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,111 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,666 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,950 | 5.2 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,017 | 2.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,715 | 2.9 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,742 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darik has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darik, and how old are they?
An estimated 490 Americans named Darik and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 28 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 510 people named Darik (5 women and girls, 505 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 488 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Darik?
Darik is a less common spelling of Darrick: SSA has recorded 520 Darik and 8,141 Darrick since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,382 babies since 1880, Darik is the fifth most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 42 babies recorded by SSA was a Darik (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Darik
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 Darik and names like it
- Compare Darik and DarrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDarik peaked in 1990.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darik since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Darik.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Darik alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.