Darian
The boy's name Darian has been in the national records since 1939, with 23,297 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 927th. About 23,000 Darians are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Darian boys named Darian
Girls and boys called Darian
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 6,256 girls and 17,041 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 18 to 254.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 65 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 23,297
- Estimated living today
- 23,000
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1994
- Best rank
- 358th
- Rank in 2025
- 927th
- First recorded
- 1939
- Girls / boys
- 6,256 / 17,041
How old the living Darians are
born that year still alive today
Of the 23,297 babies given the name since 1939, about 23,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 5,500 of them are children and 100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a coined name
A 20th-century invention, possibly based on Darius or Dorian.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Darians
- Darian Townsend (born 1984)South African and American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder
People named Darian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Darian is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Darian is most concentrated in Florida (2.3×), Colorado (2.1×), Arizona (2.1×), Texas (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1994
The most popular boys’ names the year Darian peaked:
Darian elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Darian | 350 | 1,272nd |
| Switzerland boys | Darian | 233 | 441st |
| France boys | Darian | 125 | 3,101st |
| England and Wales girls | Darian | 41 | 1,434th |
| Poland boys | Darian | 26 birth registrations | 354th |
| Belgium boys | Darian | 18 | 1,115th |
| Ireland boys | Darian | 16 | 503rd |
| Scotland boys | Darian | 3 | 762nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Darian: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Darian | 207 | 0.017% | 322nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Darian | 21 | 0.005% | 428th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Darian | 5 | 0.008% | 188th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Darian is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.02% of children were given it – 26 of them.
Darian by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 46 | 259th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Darian among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Darian | 20 | 27 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Darian lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 219 men called Darian were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Darian | 25 | 0.047 | 1,690 |
| Girona | Darian | 9 | 0.022 | 2,299 |
| Palmas, Las | Darian | 13 | 0.022 | 3,074 |
| Tarragona | Darian | 8 | 0.018 | 2,561 |
| Coruña, A | Darian | 9 | 0.017 | 2,178 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Darian | 5 | 0.016 | 2,876 |
Listed in 11 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 41 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Darian against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.