Darien
Darien is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 158 births. Its best rank was 383rd, in 1994.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1580.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1994607 births
- Best rank
- #383in 1994
- Since 1949
- 12,700people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,851 boys have been named Darien in the United States since 1949, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 607 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 1990s alone account for 33%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,849 girls have also been given it, 15% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1994, its biggest year
Darien was the 383rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1994 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1994.
Names that rose and fell with Darien
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hernanpeak 1995
- Traepeak 1993
- Darianpeak 1994
- Darrienpeak 1995
- Taranpeak 1992
- Deontaepeak 2000
- Kashawnpeak 1993
- Darionpeak 1994
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.