Darrian
Darrian was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,660 among boys’ names; 4,423 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,290 Americans named Darrian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darrian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darrian?
#5,660 among boys’ names, 2025
Darrian fell from #2,977 in 2015 to #5,660 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.3 to 9.4 per million.
340 babies in 1994, the peak
Darrian peaked in 1994, when 340 babies were given it (190 boys, #764 among boys’ names). The 16 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 16 | #5,660 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 20 | #4,919 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 13 | #6,615 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 12 | #6,908 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 24 | #4,266 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 24 | #4,164 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 24 | #4,248 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 32 | #3,460 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 46 | #2,685 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 50 | #2,523 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,340 | 39 | #2,977 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 38 | #2,991 | |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,451 | 39 | #2,901 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 57 | #2,272 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 68 | #2,004 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,660 | 78 | #1,855 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,060 | 76 | #1,895 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,637 | 76 | #1,903 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,868 | 105 | #1,510 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,694 | 110 | #1,419 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,456 | 90 | #1,557 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,375 | 84 | #1,565 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,661 | 98 | #1,371 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,202 | 106 | #1,280 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,501 | 117 | #1,172 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,090 | 127 | #1,106 |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,349 | 149 | #965 |
| 1998 | 67 | #2,147 | 150 | #939 |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,596 | 141 | #950 |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,625 | 150 | #894 |
| 1995 | 144 | #1,190 | 148 | #901 |
| 1994 | 150 | #1,175 | 190 | #764 |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,679 | 165 | #821 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,986 | 90 | #1,161 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,759 | 68 | #1,363 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,423 | 64 | #1,393 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,575 | 66 | #1,346 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,673 | 41 | #1,711 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 27 | #2,175 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 19 | #2,701 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 20 | #2,520 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 22 | #2,310 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 29 | #1,869 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 13 | #3,330 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 18 | #2,593 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 28 | #1,971 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 24 | #2,115 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 21 | #2,219 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 11 | #3,434 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 23 | #2,062 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 9 | #3,710 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 13 | #2,833 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 20 | #2,056 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 21 | #1,984 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 29 | #1,641 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 19 | #2,076 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 16 | #2,152 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 11 | #2,603 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,321 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 14 | #2,156 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 24 | #1,595 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 7 | #3,350 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,179 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #3,733 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,156 |
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 Darrian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,423 Americans recorded as Darrian, 22% are girls and 78% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 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 Darrian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darrian, and how old are they?
4,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,423 Americans ever recorded as Darrian. The median Darrian alive today is 28 years old; half are between 21 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,537 people named Darrian (875 women and girls, 2,662 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,226 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 257 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,630 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 391 |
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 Darrian born?
The states with the most babies named Darrian are Texas, California and Florida, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 316 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 253 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 225 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 123 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 109 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 76 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 71 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 67 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 65 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 63 | not ranked | 0.8× |
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 Darrian with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Darrian?
Darrian is a less common spelling of Darian: SSA has recorded 4,423 Darrian and 23,297 Darian since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 221,672 babies since 1880, Darrian is the eighth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 717 babies (2.2%), the seventh 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 Darrian
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 Darrian and names like it
- Compare Darrian and DarianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDarrian peaked in 1994.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darrian since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Darrian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Darrian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.