Darus
Darus was last recorded in 2000, when 5 babies were given it; 84 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darus?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,729, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1987, the peak
Darus peaked in 1987, when 11 boys were given it, #4,021 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #10,729 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,940 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,678 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,467 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,065 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,163 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,021 | 5.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,754 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,094 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,043 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 | #5,392 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,135 | 3.1 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,182 | 2.5 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,802 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darus, and how old are they?
An estimated 77 Americans named Darus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 200 people named Darus (10 women and girls, 190 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 79 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 68,082 babies since 1880, Darus is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 378 babies recorded by SSA was a Darus (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Darus
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 Darus and names like it
- Compare Darus and DariusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDarus peaked in 1987.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Darus.
- Names starting with DMost given first.