Daryus
Daryus was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 336 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daryus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daryus?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,176, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1996, the peak
Daryus peaked in 1996, when 16 boys were given it, #4,045 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #11,176 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,081 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,963 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,733 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,032 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,288 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,869 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,881 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,390 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,313 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | #8,974 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,612 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,843 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,718 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,178 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,344 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,301 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,082 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,466 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,554 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,828 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,383 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,935 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,716 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,045 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,155 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,486 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,969 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,243 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,473 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #5,947 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,167 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daryus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daryus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daryus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daryus, and how old are they?
An estimated 329 Americans named Daryus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 262 people named Daryus (7 women and girls, 255 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 320 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Daryus?
Daryus is a less common spelling of Darius: SSA has recorded 336 Daryus and 54,278 Darius since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 68,117 babies since 1880, Daryus is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 388 babies recorded by SSA was a Daryus (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 Daryus
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 Daryus and names like it
- Compare Daryus and DariusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDaryus peaked in 1996.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Daryus.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daryus alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.