Darius vs Darnell

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Darius Darnell

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 120 years in which either name was published, Darnell for 65 years and Darius for 55 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1880–1919 Darius ahead
• 1920–1922 Darnell ahead
• 1923 Darius ahead
• 1924–1926 Darnell ahead
• 1927 Darius ahead
• 1928–1986 Darnell ahead
• 1987–2025 Darius ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Darnells alive today are over 41; half the Dariuses are over 28. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Darius the District of Columbia (2.8×), Georgia (2.4×), Maryland (2.3×)
• Darnell the District of Columbia (6.7×), Maryland (2.8×), Louisiana (2.7×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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