Daron
Daron was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,459 among boys’ names; 7,812 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,190 Americans named Daron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 25 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Daron mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Daron is “a male given name from Armenian”
From Armenian Տարոն (Taron, Western Armenian pronunciation).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Daron?
#3,459 among boys’ names, 2025
Daron fell from #2,256 in 2015 to #3,459 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 30.8 to 19.3 per million.
241 babies in 1965, the peak
Daron peaked in 1965, when 241 boys were given it, #493 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,459 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,732 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,023 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,008 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,312 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 48 | #2,628 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,701 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,307 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 54 | #2,393 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,238 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,256 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 55 | #2,346 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,289 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 79 | #1,849 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 89 | #1,679 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 97 | #1,615 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 108 | #1,530 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 121 | #1,401 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 137 | #1,279 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 108 | #1,438 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,418 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 122 | #1,234 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 102 | #1,344 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 148 | #1,032 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 117 | #1,171 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 131 | #1,078 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 115 | #1,140 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,063 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 127 | #1,005 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 127 | #984 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 141 | #932 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 152 | #872 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 124 | #963 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 156 | #846 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 162 | #812 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 146 | #842 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 124 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 132 | #823 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 158 | #727 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 129 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 110 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 111 | #830 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 122 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 128 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 122 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 129 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 141 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 113 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 103 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 126 | #742 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 129 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 141 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 131 | #701 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 132 | #698 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 146 | #685 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 163 | #635 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 175 | #587 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 207 | #531 | 0.12 |
| 1967 | 225 | #501 | 0.13 |
| 1966 | 235 | #494 | 0.13 |
| 1965 | 241 | #493 | 0.13 |
| 1964 | 117 | #713 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 72 | #881 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 64 | #947 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 62 | #982 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,101 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 29 | #1,470 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,349 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 23 | #1,682 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,957 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,857 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,134 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,336 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,156 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,131 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,343 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,656 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,792 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,442 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,636 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,416 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,812 Americans recorded as Daron, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 33 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 Daron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daron, and how old are they?
7,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 7,812 Americans ever recorded as Daron. The median Daron alive today is 38 years old; half are between 25 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 6,060 people named Daron (195 women and girls, 5,865 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,183 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 432 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 552 |
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 Daron born?
The states with the most babies named Daron are California, Texas and New York, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 781 | #2,550 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 513 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 326 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 299 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 292 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 274 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 217 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 202 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 197 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 172 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Daron is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Daron is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1945 it was given 1.2 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 Daron 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, Daron is the seventh most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 759 babies (4.3%), again the seventh most given.
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 Daron
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 Daron and names like it
- Compare Daron and DarrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDaron peaked in 1965.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daron since 1910.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Daron.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Daron alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.