Meaning not yet researched.
Darius: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 322 in 2025. Its best rank was #152 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #152 in 1991; #788 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darius in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#788 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #152.
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Darius: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 322 boys in 2025. Peak: #152 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 2,184 (1994).
In 2025, 322 US boys were named Darius, making it the 788th most common boys’ name of the year, down 42 places from #746 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 344 boys named Darius in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #152, reached in 1991. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,184, in 1994. For comparison, it was #502 in 2015 and #1,260 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darius in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 10 babies. In all, 54,278 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 19,770 babies named Darius.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,550 US boys were named Darius; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 584. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,305 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Darius ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #515 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dario (11,945 babies since 1880), Darrius (7,689 babies since 1880) and Darious (1,558 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Darris, Daris and Darrious 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Icelandic, Persian and Romanian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Darris (2,089), Daris (1,868), Darrious (389), Daryus (336), Daruis (180), Dariush (154), Dariusz (130), Darus (84), Darias (60), Dareus (52), Daries (40), Darryus (22), and more.
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 Darius 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 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 8 | #515 | #653 |
| Utah | 8 | #526 | #627 |
| Missouri | 11 | #532 | #471 |
| Alabama | 9 | #538 | #578 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #545 | #337 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #547 | #384 |
| Maryland | 7 | #643 | #316 |
| Washington | 10 | #650 | #435 |
| Indiana | 9 | #680 | #412 |
| Florida | 23 | #683 | #341 |
| New York | 21 | #698 | #522 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #708 | #690 |
| Texas | 37 | #735 | #655 |
| California | 36 | #737 | #641 |
| Virginia | 9 | #747 | #552 |
| Ohio | 11 | #764 | #482 |
| Georgia | 11 | #803 | #335 |
| Arizona | 6 | #864 | #635 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #883 | #596 |
| Michigan | 7 | #927 | #327 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #945 | #594 |
| Illinois | 8 | #954 | #472 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,022 | #461 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 322 | #788 |
| 2024 | — | — | 344 | #746 |
| 2023 | — | — | 367 | #723 |
| 2022 | — | — | 402 | #679 |
| 2021 | — | — | 434 | #636 |
| 2020 | — | — | 469 | #592 |
| 2019 | — | — | 491 | #567 |
| 2018 | — | — | 553 | #510 |
| 2017 | — | — | 584 | #495 |
| 2016 | — | — | 584 | #511 |
| 2015 | — | — | 579 | #502 |
| 2014 | — | — | 614 | #473 |
| 2013 | — | — | 718 | #410 |
| 2012 | — | — | 730 | #399 |
| 2011 | — | — | 766 | #380 |
| 2010 | — | — | 929 | #337 |
| 2009 | — | — | 956 | #333 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,052 | #318 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,988 | 1,090 | #306 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,244 | #278 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,140 | 1,134 | #291 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,096 | 1,117 | #284 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,289 | #255 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,048 | 1,422 | #237 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,380 | 1,568 | #218 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,585 | 1,564 | #220 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,703 | #199 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,413 | 2,131 | #162 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,568 | 1,890 | #177 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,816 | 1,768 | #182 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,035 | 1,932 | #169 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,781 | 2,184 | #155 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,623 | 1,983 | #161 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,148 | 1,923 | #164 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,531 | 2,118 | #152 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,024 | 2,033 | #152 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,389 | 1,504 | #194 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,251 | 948 | #249 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,359 | 902 | #253 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,714 | 650 | #313 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,554 | 609 | #326 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,370 | 601 | #321 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,302 | 489 | #361 |
| 1982 | — | — | 493 | #362 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,314 | 484 | #363 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,404 | 497 | #356 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,251 | 460 | #374 |
| 1978 | — | — | 351 | #420 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,019 | 361 | #415 |
| 1976 | — | — | 273 | #481 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,218 | 307 | #458 |
| 1974 | — | — | 297 | #465 |
| 1973 | — | — | 285 | #462 |
| 1972 | — | — | 292 | #460 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,129 | 259 | #505 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,256 | 259 | #502 |
| 1969 | — | — | 221 | #529 |
| 1968 | — | — | 172 | #576 |
| 1967 | — | — | 165 | #590 |
| 1966 | — | — | 125 | #661 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,727 | 124 | #665 |
| 1964 | — | — | 124 | #693 |
| 1963 | — | — | 128 | #686 |
| 1962 | — | — | 109 | #734 |
| 1961 | — | — | 98 | #778 |
| 1960 | — | — | 85 | #826 |
| 1959 | — | — | 73 | #900 |
| 1958 | — | — | 79 | #851 |
| 1957 | — | — | 77 | #854 |
| 1956 | — | — | 55 | #1,012 |
| 1955 | — | — | 67 | #910 |
| 1954 | — | — | 58 | #977 |
| 1953 | — | — | 44 | #1,105 |
| 1952 | — | — | 60 | #915 |
| 1951 | — | — | 41 | #1,123 |
| 1950 | — | — | 33 | #1,260 |
| 1949 | — | — | 29 | #1,353 |
| 1948 | — | — | 29 | #1,353 |
| 1947 | — | — | 33 | #1,277 |
| 1946 | — | — | 39 | #1,114 |
| 1945 | — | — | 15 | #1,796 |
| 1944 | — | — | 25 | #1,338 |
| 1943 | — | — | 19 | #1,651 |
| 1942 | — | — | 19 | #1,641 |
| 1941 | — | — | 23 | #1,421 |
| 1940 | — | — | 21 | #1,482 |
| 1939 | — | — | 25 | #1,328 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,216 |
| 1937 | — | — | 20 | #1,543 |
| 1936 | — | — | 16 | #1,743 |
| 1935 | — | — | 15 | #1,853 |
| 1934 | — | — | 18 | #1,672 |
| 1933 | — | — | 15 | #1,845 |
| 1932 | — | — | 15 | #1,935 |
| 1931 | — | — | 16 | #1,866 |
| 1930 | — | — | 19 | #1,707 |
| 1929 | — | — | 13 | #2,232 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,185 |
| 1927 | — | — | 25 | #1,525 |
| 1926 | — | — | 20 | #1,740 |
| 1925 | — | — | 16 | #2,026 |
| 1924 | — | — | 21 | #1,736 |
| 1923 | — | — | 17 | #1,962 |
| 1922 | — | — | 20 | #1,778 |
| 1921 | — | — | 16 | #2,079 |
| 1920 | — | — | 16 | #2,066 |
| 1919 | — | — | 17 | #1,895 |
| 1918 | — | — | 18 | #1,843 |
| 1917 | — | — | 27 | #1,336 |
| 1916 | — | — | 16 | #1,869 |
| 1915 | — | — | 13 | #2,093 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,891 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #1,979 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,773 |
| 1910 | — | — | 7 | #1,339 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,120 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,104 |
| 1886 | — | — | 6 | #870 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #861 |
| 1880 | — | — | 10 | #608 |
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).