Meaning not yet researched.
Darion: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #525 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #525 in 1994; #3,048 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darion in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,048 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #525.
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Darion: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #525 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 373 (1994).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Darion, making it the 3,048th most common boys’ name of the year, down 327 places from #2,721 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 48 boys named Darion in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #525, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 373. For comparison, it was #2,023 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darion in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 7,773 US babies have been given the name, 7.2% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,082 babies named Darion.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 607 US boys were named Darion; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 87. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Darren (104,506 babies since 1880), Darin (32,910 babies since 1880), Darrin (29,747 babies since 1880) and Darian (23,297 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Darionne 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: Darionne (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 Darion in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 40 | #3,048 |
| 2024 | — | — | 48 | #2,721 |
| 2023 | — | — | 45 | #2,812 |
| 2022 | — | — | 43 | #2,929 |
| 2021 | — | — | 70 | #2,080 |
| 2020 | — | — | 67 | #2,096 |
| 2019 | — | — | 54 | #2,467 |
| 2018 | — | — | 77 | #1,925 |
| 2017 | — | — | 76 | #1,899 |
| 2016 | — | — | 87 | #1,765 |
| 2015 | — | — | 71 | #2,023 |
| 2014 | — | — | 75 | #1,927 |
| 2013 | — | — | 111 | #1,477 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,522 | 114 | #1,448 |
| 2011 | — | — | 143 | #1,222 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,611 | 143 | #1,234 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,064 | 180 | #1,052 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,833 | 233 | #894 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,302 | 266 | #806 |
| 2006 | — | — | 229 | #870 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,350 | 185 | #946 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,747 | 204 | #863 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,381 | 232 | #762 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,422 | 249 | #712 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,319 | 287 | #651 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,893 | 274 | #658 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,997 | 275 | #640 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,365 | 298 | #614 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,045 | 289 | #610 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,682 | 282 | #617 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,888 | 302 | #590 |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,597 | 373 | #525 |
| 1993 | 92 | #1,644 | 296 | #599 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,651 | 190 | #748 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,860 | 173 | #781 |
| 1990 | — | — | 141 | #861 |
| 1989 | — | — | 119 | #932 |
| 1988 | — | — | 85 | #1,077 |
| 1987 | — | — | 53 | #1,387 |
| 1986 | — | — | 53 | #1,346 |
| 1985 | — | — | 46 | #1,453 |
| 1984 | — | — | 46 | #1,405 |
| 1983 | — | — | 38 | #1,568 |
| 1982 | — | — | 31 | #1,821 |
| 1981 | — | — | 27 | #2,002 |
| 1980 | — | — | 32 | #1,774 |
| 1979 | — | — | 30 | #1,840 |
| 1978 | — | — | 29 | #1,806 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,815 |
| 1976 | — | — | 27 | #1,838 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #2,939 |
| 1974 | — | — | 28 | #1,704 |
| 1973 | — | — | 24 | #1,829 |
| 1972 | — | — | 26 | #1,736 |
| 1971 | — | — | 30 | #1,608 |
| 1970 | — | — | 31 | #1,525 |
| 1969 | — | — | 17 | #2,063 |
| 1968 | — | — | 31 | #1,403 |
| 1967 | — | — | 28 | #1,450 |
| 1966 | — | — | 31 | #1,378 |
| 1965 | — | — | 26 | #1,524 |
| 1964 | — | — | 14 | #2,232 |
| 1963 | — | — | 16 | #2,061 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,546 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,425 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,913 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,344 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,078 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,107 |
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).