Darrius
Darrius was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,970 among boys’ names; 7,689 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,430 Americans named Darrius and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darrius by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darrius?
#3,970 among boys’ names, 2025
Darrius fell from #1,877 in 2015 to #3,970 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 40.7 to 15.8 per million.
319 babies in 1994, the peak
Darrius peaked in 1994, when 319 boys were given it, #577 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,970 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,344 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 45 | #2,812 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,110 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,736 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,399 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,171 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,086 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,218 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,014 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #1,877 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 80 | #1,845 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 107 | #1,513 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 99 | #1,590 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 141 | #1,236 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,200 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 165 | #1,120 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 172 | #1,086 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 182 | #1,032 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 199 | #943 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 199 | #902 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 181 | #935 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 213 | #823 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 219 | #787 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 227 | #757 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 264 | #674 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 212 | #753 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 284 | #633 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 243 | #672 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 258 | #647 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 267 | #631 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 319 | #577 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 295 | #602 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 302 | #589 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 304 | #580 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 317 | #568 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 317 | #542 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 177 | #705 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 170 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 130 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 99 | #910 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 106 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 71 | #1,053 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 93 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 71 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 64 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 37 | #1,543 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 47 | #1,320 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 44 | #1,336 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,300 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 31 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,057 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 25 | #1,781 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,834 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,136 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 18 | #1,998 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,263 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,332 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,385 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,178 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darrius a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darrius has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darrius: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darrius, and how old are they?
7,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 7,689 Americans ever recorded as Darrius. The median Darrius alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 5,590 people named Darrius (32 women and girls, 5,558 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,273 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 399 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 770 |
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 Darrius born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,133 | 0.8× |
Where Darrius is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darrius is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1962 it was given 3.4 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 Darrius 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 Darrius?
Darrius is a less common spelling of Darius: SSA has recorded 7,689 Darrius and 54,278 Darius since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 68,387 babies since 1880, Darrius is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 378 babies (7.1%), again the second 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 Darrius
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 Darrius and names like it
- Compare Darrius and DariusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDarrius peaked in 1994.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darrius since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Darrius.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Darrius alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.