Darrien
Darrien was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,278 among boys’ names; 3,636 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,520 Americans named Darrien 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 Darrien by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darrien?
#4,278 among boys’ names, 2025
Darrien fell from #2,928 in 2015 to #4,278 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.9 to 14.1 per million.
203 babies in 1995, the peak
Darrien peaked in 1995, when 203 babies were given it (151 boys, #889 among boys’ names). The 24 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,278 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,279 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,366 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,735 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,663 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,451 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,133 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,854 | 23.1 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,202 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,073 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,928 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,761 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,430 | 27.0 |
| 2012 | 78 | #1,863 | 41.1 |
| 2011 | 71 | #1,950 | 37.4 |
| 2010 | 89 | #1,718 | 46.4 |
| 2009 | 91 | #1,709 | 45.9 |
| 2008 | 103 | #1,555 | 50.5 |
| 2007 | 99 | #1,582 | 47.7 |
| 2006 | 99 | #1,520 | 48.2 |
| 2005 | 84 | #1,617 | 42.1 |
| 2004 | 83 | #1,581 | 41.8 |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,392 | 48.6 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,223 | 57.7 |
| 2001 | 110 | #1,216 | 56.6 |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,213 | 56.5 |
| 1999 | 142 | #992 | 74.0 |
| 1998 | 140 | #978 | 73.2 |
| 1997 | 138 | #958 | 73.2 |
| 1996 | 97 | #1,178 | 51.2 |
| 1995 | 151 | #889 | 79.3 |
| 1994 | 142 | #918 | 73.5 |
| 1993 | 134 | #927 | 68.3 |
| 1992 | 70 | #1,348 | 35.0 |
| 1991 | 69 | #1,355 | 34.2 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,906 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 42 | #1,799 | 21.0 |
| 1988 | 43 | #1,647 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,485 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,615 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,972 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,449 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,426 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #2,997 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,428 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 25 | #2,125 | 14.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,617 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,447 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,662 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #2,977 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,489 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,834 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,888 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,853 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,386 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,649 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,443 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,220 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 23 | #1,615 | 13.2 |
| 1966 | 19 | #1,763 | 10.7 |
| 1965 | 29 | #1,434 | 15.6 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,748 | 10.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,102 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,719 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,734 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,913 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darrien a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,636 Americans recorded as Darrien, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 24 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 Darrien: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darrien, and how old are they?
3,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,636 Americans ever recorded as Darrien. The median Darrien alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 2,858 people named Darrien (343 women and girls, 2,515 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,421 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 | 39 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 214 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,080 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 411 |
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 Darrien born?
The states with the most babies named Darrien are California, Texas and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 214 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 185 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 166 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 121 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 109 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 103 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 100 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 65 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 63 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 53 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Darrien is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darrien is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1960 it was given 1.6 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 Darrien 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 225,744 babies since 1880, Darrien is the eighth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 750 babies (3.2%), again the eighth 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 Darrien
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 Darrien and names like it
- Compare Darrien and DarrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDarrien peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darrien since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Darrien.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Darrien alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.