Meaning not yet researched.
Darian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 254 in 2025. Its best rank was #358 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #358 in 1994; #928 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Darian in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#928 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #358.
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Darian: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 254 boys in 2025. Peak: #358 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 674 (1994).
In 2025, 254 US boys were named Darian, making it the 928th most common boys’ name of the year, down 32 places from #896 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 264 boys named Darian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #358, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 674. For comparison, it was #788 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Darian, making it the 6,379th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,308 places from #7,687 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 14 girls named Darian in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #313, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 869. For comparison, it was #5,512 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darian in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1939 with 7 babies. In all, 23,297 US babies have been given the name, 27% of them girls and 73% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 9,330 babies named Darian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,494 US boys were named Darian; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 274. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,725 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Darian ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #278 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Darien (12,826 babies since 1880), Darren (104,506 babies since 1880), Darin (32,910 babies since 1880) and Darrin (29,747 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Darianne and Daryann are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Darianne (180), Daryann (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Darian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 7 | #278 | #412 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #508 | — |
| Texas | 57 | #560 | #592 |
| Maryland | 7 | #642 | — |
| Florida | 24 | #666 | #538 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #722 | #879 |
| California | 36 | #736 | #685 |
| Colorado | 6 | #785 | #561 |
| Arizona | 7 | #794 | #441 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #955 | #722 |
| Virginia | 6 | #994 | #907 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,015 | #1,028 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,018 | #1,005 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,035 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,161 | #1,215 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,276 | #567 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,315 | #1,006 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,379 | 254 | #928 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,687 | 264 | #896 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,341 | 209 | #1,046 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,456 | 231 | #976 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,735 | 227 | #977 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,916 | 273 | #835 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,488 | 230 | #939 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,316 | 266 | #837 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,477 | 274 | #820 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,097 | 266 | #846 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,512 | 296 | #788 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,760 | 288 | #798 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,806 | 290 | #774 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,921 | 314 | #739 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,953 | 333 | #695 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,124 | 380 | #638 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,754 | 369 | #663 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,130 | 414 | #606 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,493 | 445 | #577 |
| 2006 | 79 | #2,380 | 412 | #598 |
| 2005 | 99 | #1,934 | 373 | #605 |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,737 | 421 | #548 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,398 | 448 | #523 |
| 2002 | 180 | #1,149 | 487 | #478 |
| 2001 | 214 | #1,003 | 561 | #433 |
| 2000 | 253 | #870 | 599 | #415 |
| 1999 | 308 | #731 | 564 | #416 |
| 1998 | 462 | #543 | 639 | #387 |
| 1997 | 572 | #444 | 596 | #394 |
| 1996 | 483 | #497 | 537 | #420 |
| 1995 | 680 | #390 | 594 | #394 |
| 1994 | 869 | #313 | 674 | #358 |
| 1993 | 523 | #482 | 565 | #411 |
| 1992 | 305 | #707 | 349 | #547 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,996 | 271 | #619 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,746 | 259 | #632 |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,200 | 190 | #717 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,242 | 100 | #963 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,518 | 82 | #1,054 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,746 | 58 | #1,270 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,092 | 81 | #1,012 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,987 | 80 | #995 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,906 | 80 | #987 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,638 | 80 | #1,015 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,965 | 82 | #1,004 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,355 | 92 | #929 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,466 | 111 | #828 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,517 | 153 | #676 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,271 | 177 | #637 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,954 | 149 | #674 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,646 | 143 | #692 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,866 | 168 | #621 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,414 | 156 | #635 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,345 | 148 | #660 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,602 | 212 | #555 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,331 | 206 | #566 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,782 | 157 | #630 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,554 | 56 | #987 |
| 1967 | — | — | 50 | #1,034 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,955 | 56 | #972 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,946 | 67 | #901 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,731 | 26 | #1,552 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,203 | 21 | #1,750 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,821 | 22 | #1,719 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,973 | 14 | #2,262 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,238 | 18 | #1,920 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,139 | 11 | #2,561 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,989 | 10 | #2,679 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,008 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,935 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,009 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,762 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,732 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,958 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,786 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,731 | 6 | #3,247 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,498 | — | — |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #2,888 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).