Meaning not yet researched.
Darien: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 125 in 2025. Its best rank was #383 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #383 in 1994; #1,436 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darien in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,436 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #383.
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Darien: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 125 boys in 2025. Peak: #383 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 607 (1994).
In 2025, 125 US boys were named Darien, making it the 1,436th most common boys’ name of the year, down 185 places from #1,251 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 158 boys named Darien in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #383, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 607. For comparison, it was #1,050 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Darien in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,037, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 175. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #3,476 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darien in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 6 babies. In all, 12,826 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,641 babies named Darien.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,452 US boys were named Darien; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 182. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,665 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Darien ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #795 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Darian (23,297 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 Darienne 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: Darienne (358).
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 Darien 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 7 | #795 | #919 |
| Maryland | 5 | #830 | #726 |
| Florida | 15 | #920 | #778 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,060 | #880 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,126 | — |
| California | 15 | #1,259 | #917 |
| New York | 8 | #1,328 | #906 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,360 | #904 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 125 | #1,436 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,848 | 158 | #1,251 |
| 2023 | — | — | 131 | #1,404 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,559 | 120 | #1,508 |
| 2021 | — | — | 132 | #1,385 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,691 | 135 | #1,328 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,232 | 151 | #1,245 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,802 | 144 | #1,277 |
| 2017 | — | — | 174 | #1,110 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,271 | 182 | #1,081 |
| 2015 | — | — | 189 | #1,050 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,203 | 212 | #983 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,521 | 198 | #996 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,846 | 210 | #960 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,451 | 241 | #872 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,665 | 215 | #936 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,149 | 236 | #888 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,404 | 255 | #846 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,643 | 284 | #773 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,188 | 243 | #834 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,487 | 259 | #765 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,036 | 250 | #746 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,372 | 326 | #629 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,829 | 327 | #612 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,418 | 330 | #599 |
| 2000 | 64 | #2,410 | 378 | #556 |
| 1999 | 93 | #1,736 | 385 | #537 |
| 1998 | 116 | #1,474 | 341 | #574 |
| 1997 | 127 | #1,355 | 344 | #559 |
| 1996 | 128 | #1,333 | 342 | #549 |
| 1995 | 175 | #1,037 | 424 | #500 |
| 1994 | 164 | #1,098 | 607 | #383 |
| 1993 | 140 | #1,238 | 533 | #424 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,915 | 281 | #615 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,689 | 178 | #768 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,553 | 148 | #842 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,808 | 148 | #815 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,523 | 84 | #1,083 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,139 | 63 | #1,221 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,827 | 57 | #1,287 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,563 | 57 | #1,269 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,944 | 56 | #1,228 |
| 1983 | — | — | 62 | #1,147 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,621 | 63 | #1,154 |
| 1981 | — | — | 61 | #1,179 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,403 | 50 | #1,327 |
| 1979 | — | — | 56 | #1,226 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,989 | 56 | #1,190 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,692 | 37 | #1,520 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,753 | 51 | #1,212 |
| 1975 | — | — | 46 | #1,262 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,867 | 36 | #1,442 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,676 | 51 | #1,152 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,065 | 54 | #1,111 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,128 | 55 | #1,101 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,485 | 69 | #969 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,089 | 49 | #1,114 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,889 | 67 | #879 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,586 | 66 | #888 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,786 | 79 | #822 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,923 | 106 | #721 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,412 | 53 | #1,039 |
| 1963 | — | — | 32 | #1,381 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,957 | 31 | #1,407 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,821 | 24 | #1,650 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,846 | 17 | #1,984 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,292 | 12 | #2,444 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,259 | 11 | #2,535 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,531 | 8 | #3,019 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,834 | 7 | #3,264 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,261 | — | — |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,003 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,198 | 8 | #2,920 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,463 | — | — |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,078 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,402 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,065 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,077 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,691 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,705 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,382 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,891 | — | — |
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).