Darya
Darya was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,533 among girls’ names; 1,360 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Darya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Darya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Darya is “a transliteration of the Russian female given name Дарья (Darʹja), equivalent to Daria.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Darya?
#3,533 among girls’ names, 2025
Darya rose from #3,862 in 2015 to #3,533 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.8 to 26.8 per million.
50 babies in 2007, the peak
Darya peaked in 2007, when 50 girls were given it, #3,342 among girls’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,533 | 26.8 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,296 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,604 | 26.8 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,615 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,631 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,097 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,028 | 21.4 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,019 | 21.2 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,446 | 26.1 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,536 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,862 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,500 | 25.2 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,788 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,994 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,932 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,424 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,812 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,107 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,342 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,852 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,047 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,844 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,606 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,003 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,882 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,744 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,110 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,856 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,919 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,743 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,338 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,765 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,730 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,081 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,060 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,549 | 6.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,252 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,724 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,748 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,582 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,406 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,229 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,426 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,924 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,497 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,103 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,723 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,626 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,436 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,678 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,853 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,129 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,486 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,002 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,949 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,409 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,765 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darya, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,360 Americans ever recorded as Darya. The median Darya alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,418 people named Darya (2,385 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 93 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 551 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 524 |
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 Darya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,333 | 1.9× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,229 | 0.3× |
Where Darya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darya is most over-represented in California: since 1961 it was given 1.9 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 girls’ 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 Darya 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 30,516 babies since 1880, Darya is the fourth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 538 babies (8.0%), the third 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 Darya
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 Darya and names like it
- Compare Darya and DaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDarya peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darya since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Darya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Darya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.