Darris
Darris was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,457 among boys’ names; 2,089 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Darris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 33 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darris?
#12,457 among boys’ names, 2025
Darris fell from #6,755 in 2015 to #12,457 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 2.9 per million.
60 babies in 1983, the peak
Darris peaked in 1983, when 60 boys were given it, #1,169 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,457 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,885 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,080 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,218 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,960 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,073 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,202 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,716 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,755 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,784 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 16 | #5,438 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,389 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,099 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,797 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,860 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,472 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,850 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,121 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,671 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,668 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,454 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,638 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,553 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,430 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,297 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,306 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,491 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,426 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,304 | 17.9 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,487 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 31 | #2,404 | 15.8 |
| 1992 | 34 | #2,218 | 17.0 |
| 1991 | 36 | #2,049 | 17.8 |
| 1990 | 50 | #1,631 | 24.3 |
| 1989 | 56 | #1,475 | 28.0 |
| 1988 | 42 | #1,673 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 35 | #1,832 | 18.7 |
| 1986 | 52 | #1,366 | 28.2 |
| 1985 | 40 | #1,600 | 21.6 |
| 1984 | 42 | #1,486 | 23.3 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,169 | 33.5 |
| 1982 | 31 | #1,821 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 39 | #1,552 | 21.8 |
| 1980 | 48 | #1,359 | 26.9 |
| 1979 | 46 | #1,376 | 26.7 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,082 | 14.0 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,286 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,728 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,554 | 10.2 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,141 | 12.7 |
| 1973 | 28 | #1,664 | 18.0 |
| 1972 | 24 | #1,830 | 14.8 |
| 1971 | 32 | #1,534 | 18.1 |
| 1970 | 37 | #1,377 | 19.9 |
| 1969 | 32 | #1,418 | 17.9 |
| 1968 | 19 | #1,855 | 10.9 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,201 | 22.4 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,308 | 19.1 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,297 | 18.8 |
| 1964 | 23 | #1,664 | 11.5 |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,215 | 20.2 |
| 1962 | 28 | #1,483 | 13.5 |
| 1961 | 28 | #1,528 | 13.2 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,147 | 7.0 |
| 1959 | 27 | #1,525 | 12.6 |
| 1958 | 18 | #1,909 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 24 | #1,642 | 11.1 |
| 1956 | 24 | #1,614 | 11.3 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,799 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,976 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,914 | 8.6 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,091 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 18 | #1,787 | 9.6 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,235 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,143 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,135 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,181 | 7.1 |
| 1946 | 14 | #1,970 | 8.6 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,032 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,218 | 8.1 |
| 1943 | 14 | #1,998 | 9.8 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,065 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,377 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,934 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 13 | #1,978 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,218 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,840 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,232 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,421 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,071 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,896 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,421 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,331 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,339 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,833 | 5.4 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,596 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,495 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,447 | 4.7 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,782 | 9.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,089 Americans recorded as Darris, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 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 Darris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darris, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 2,089 Americans ever recorded as Darris. The median Darris alive today is 43 years old; half are between 33 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 1,370 people named Darris (116 women and girls, 1,254 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,723 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 43 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 277 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 417 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 589 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 226 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 106 |
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 66,913 babies since 1880, Darris is the third most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 370 babies (1.4%), 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 Darris
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.
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