Darion
Darion was given to 40 boys in 2025, #3,047 among boys’ names; 7,773 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,530 Americans named Darion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 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 Darion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darion?
#3,047 among boys’ names, 2025
Darion fell from #2,023 in 2015 to #3,047 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 37.0 to 23.4 per million.
468 babies in 1994, the peak
Darion peaked in 1994, when 468 babies were given it (373 boys, #524 among boys’ names). The 40 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,047 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 48 | #2,721 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 45 | #2,811 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,927 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,079 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,096 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,466 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 77 | #1,924 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 76 | #1,899 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 87 | #1,765 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,023 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 75 | #1,926 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 111 | #1,477 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 114 | #1,448 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 143 | #1,222 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 143 | #1,234 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 180 | #1,052 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 233 | #894 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 266 | #806 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 229 | #870 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 185 | #945 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 204 | #862 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 232 | #761 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 249 | #712 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 287 | #651 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 274 | #657 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 275 | #639 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 298 | #614 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 289 | #610 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 282 | #617 | 0.15 |
| 1995 | 302 | #589 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 373 | #524 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 296 | #598 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 190 | #746 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 173 | #777 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 141 | #857 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 119 | #929 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 53 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 53 | #1,345 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 46 | #1,452 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 46 | #1,404 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 38 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 31 | #1,820 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 27 | #2,001 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 32 | #1,774 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,840 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 29 | #1,806 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,814 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 27 | #1,837 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,937 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 28 | #1,704 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 24 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 26 | #1,736 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,607 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 31 | #1,524 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,062 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 31 | #1,403 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 28 | #1,449 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 31 | #1,377 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 26 | #1,523 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,231 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,060 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,545 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,424 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,912 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,343 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,077 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,106 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,773 Americans recorded as Darion, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 40 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 Darion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darion, and how old are they?
7,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 7,773 Americans ever recorded as Darion. The median Darion alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 5,739 people named Darion (504 women and girls, 5,235 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,310 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 57 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 368 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,740 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 857 |
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 Darion born?
The states with the most babies named Darion are Texas, California and Illinois, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 720 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 556 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 506 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 357 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 339 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 306 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 294 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 214 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 198 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 162 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Darion is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darion is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1957 it was given 1.9 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 Darion 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, Darion is the eighth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 759 babies (5.3%), the fourth 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 Darion
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 Darion and names like it
- Compare Darion and DarrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDarion peaked in 1994.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darion since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Darion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Darion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.