Darious
Darious was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,094 among boys’ names; 1,558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,510 Americans named Darious and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darious by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darious?
#9,094 among boys’ names, 2025
Darious fell from #5,340 in 2015 to #9,094 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 4.7 per million.
76 babies in 1993, the peak
Darious peaked in 1993, when 76 boys were given it, #1,301 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,094 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,238 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,985 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,453 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,091 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,217 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,197 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,107 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,859 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,603 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,340 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,162 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 25 | #3,988 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,571 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,910 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,711 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,174 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,570 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,769 | 20.7 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,236 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,624 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,897 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 45 | #2,356 | 22.8 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,645 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,121 | 25.2 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,387 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 62 | #1,692 | 32.3 |
| 1998 | 67 | #1,572 | 35.1 |
| 1997 | 54 | #1,771 | 28.6 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,074 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 48 | #1,804 | 25.2 |
| 1994 | 58 | #1,580 | 30.0 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,301 | 38.7 |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,298 | 37.5 |
| 1991 | 65 | #1,407 | 32.2 |
| 1990 | 58 | #1,483 | 28.2 |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,240 | 37.5 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,909 | 17.8 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,860 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,911 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,617 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,548 | 10.5 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,671 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,144 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,513 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,668 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,148 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,192 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,271 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,080 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,384 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,774 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,547 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,726 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,926 | 3.8 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,611 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,848 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darious a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darious has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darious: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darious, and how old are they?
1,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,558 Americans ever recorded as Darious. The median Darious alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,179 people named Darious (14 women and girls, 1,165 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,466 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 3 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 72 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 618 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 627 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 186 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,321 babies since 1880, Darious is the fourth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 383 babies (2.1%), the fifth 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 Darious
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 Darious and names like it
- Compare Darious and DariusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDarious peaked in 1993.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darious since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Darious.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Darious alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.