Meaning not yet researched.
Darrien: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #892 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #892 in 1995; #4,279 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darrien in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,279 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #892.
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Darrien: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #892 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 151 (1995).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Darrien, making it the 4,279th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,004 places from #5,283 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 18 boys named Darrien in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #892, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 151. For comparison, it was #2,929 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darrien in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 9 babies. In all, 3,636 US babies have been given the name, 9.9% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,408 babies named Darrien.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 280 US boys were named Darrien; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 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).
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.
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 Darrien 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 | — | — | 24 | #4,279 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,283 |
| 2023 | — | — | 24 | #4,370 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,739 |
| 2021 | — | — | 30 | #3,667 |
| 2020 | — | — | 22 | #4,455 |
| 2019 | — | — | 25 | #4,137 |
| 2018 | — | — | 42 | #2,855 |
| 2017 | — | — | 36 | #3,203 |
| 2016 | — | — | 38 | #3,074 |
| 2015 | — | — | 40 | #2,929 |
| 2014 | — | — | 43 | #2,763 |
| 2013 | — | — | 51 | #2,431 |
| 2012 | — | — | 78 | #1,864 |
| 2011 | — | — | 71 | #1,951 |
| 2010 | — | — | 89 | #1,718 |
| 2009 | — | — | 91 | #1,710 |
| 2008 | — | — | 103 | #1,555 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,991 | 99 | #1,582 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,788 | 99 | #1,520 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,946 | 84 | #1,619 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,751 | 83 | #1,584 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,653 | 96 | #1,393 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,149 | 112 | #1,226 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,321 | 110 | #1,218 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,688 | 111 | #1,215 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,984 | 142 | #994 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,131 | 140 | #981 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,645 | 138 | #960 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,444 | 97 | #1,180 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,464 | 151 | #892 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,852 | 142 | #921 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,684 | 134 | #929 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,326 | 70 | #1,353 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,535 | 69 | #1,361 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,911 |
| 1989 | — | — | 42 | #1,804 |
| 1988 | — | — | 43 | #1,652 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,489 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,618 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #2,975 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,450 |
| 1983 | — | — | 20 | #2,427 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #2,998 |
| 1981 | — | — | 20 | #2,429 |
| 1980 | — | — | 25 | #2,125 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,619 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,448 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,664 |
| 1976 | — | — | 13 | #2,978 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,491 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,836 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,890 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,855 |
| 1971 | — | — | 16 | #2,387 |
| 1970 | — | — | 13 | #2,650 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,444 |
| 1968 | — | — | 14 | #2,221 |
| 1967 | — | — | 23 | #1,616 |
| 1966 | — | — | 19 | #1,764 |
| 1965 | — | — | 29 | #1,435 |
| 1964 | — | — | 21 | #1,749 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,103 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,720 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,735 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,914 |
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).