Meaning not yet researched.
Darrius: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #543 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #543 in 1989; #3,971 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Darrius in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,971 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #543.
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Darrius: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #543 in 1989 · most boys in one year: 319 (1994).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Darrius, making it the 3,971st most common boys’ name of the year, down 625 places from #3,346 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 35 boys named Darrius in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #543, reached in 1989. The most boys given the name in a single year was 319, in 1994. For comparison, it was #1,877 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darrius in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 7,689 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,801 babies named Darrius.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 511 US boys were named Darrius; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Darius (54,278 babies since 1880) and Darious (1,558 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 Darrius 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 | — | — | 27 | #3,971 |
| 2024 | — | — | 35 | #3,346 |
| 2023 | — | — | 45 | #2,813 |
| 2022 | — | — | 39 | #3,112 |
| 2021 | — | — | 46 | #2,737 |
| 2020 | — | — | 55 | #2,400 |
| 2019 | — | — | 65 | #2,172 |
| 2018 | — | — | 68 | #2,087 |
| 2017 | — | — | 60 | #2,219 |
| 2016 | — | — | 71 | #2,014 |
| 2015 | — | — | 78 | #1,877 |
| 2014 | — | — | 80 | #1,845 |
| 2013 | — | — | 107 | #1,513 |
| 2012 | — | — | 99 | #1,590 |
| 2011 | — | — | 141 | #1,236 |
| 2010 | — | — | 149 | #1,200 |
| 2009 | — | — | 165 | #1,120 |
| 2008 | — | — | 172 | #1,086 |
| 2007 | — | — | 182 | #1,032 |
| 2006 | — | — | 199 | #943 |
| 2005 | — | — | 199 | #902 |
| 2004 | — | — | 181 | #936 |
| 2003 | — | — | 213 | #824 |
| 2002 | — | — | 219 | #788 |
| 2001 | — | — | 227 | #758 |
| 2000 | — | — | 264 | #675 |
| 1999 | — | — | 212 | #755 |
| 1998 | — | — | 284 | #633 |
| 1997 | — | — | 243 | #672 |
| 1996 | — | — | 258 | #648 |
| 1995 | — | — | 267 | #632 |
| 1994 | — | — | 319 | #578 |
| 1993 | — | — | 295 | #603 |
| 1992 | — | — | 302 | #591 |
| 1991 | — | — | 304 | #581 |
| 1990 | — | — | 317 | #569 |
| 1989 | — | — | 317 | #543 |
| 1988 | — | — | 177 | #705 |
| 1987 | — | — | 170 | #698 |
| 1986 | — | — | 130 | #797 |
| 1985 | — | — | 99 | #910 |
| 1984 | — | — | 106 | #854 |
| 1983 | — | — | 71 | #1,053 |
| 1982 | — | — | 93 | #929 |
| 1981 | — | — | 71 | #1,079 |
| 1980 | — | — | 64 | #1,137 |
| 1979 | — | — | 65 | #1,108 |
| 1978 | — | — | 37 | #1,543 |
| 1977 | — | — | 47 | #1,320 |
| 1976 | — | — | 44 | #1,336 |
| 1975 | — | — | 19 | #2,301 |
| 1974 | — | — | 31 | #1,593 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,058 |
| 1972 | — | — | 25 | #1,781 |
| 1971 | — | — | 24 | #1,835 |
| 1970 | — | — | 18 | #2,137 |
| 1969 | — | — | 18 | #1,999 |
| 1967 | — | — | 13 | #2,264 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,667 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,035 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,333 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,386 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,179 |
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).