Darius
Darius is ranked 746th among boys in 2024 (343 births). Its best rank was 152nd, in 1990–1991.
- Rank in 2024
- #746down 18 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3430.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19942,184 births
- Best rank
- #152first in 1990
- Since 1880
- 53,677people given the name
The story in the numbers
53,677 boys have been named Darius in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 2,184 births — 0.11% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 473 → 746).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 37%. It has spent 74 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Darius | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 22 | |
| 1890s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 128 | |
| 1920s | 178 | |
| 1930s | 170 | |
| 1940s | 252 | |
| 1950s | 587 | |
| 1960s | 1,350 | |
| 1970s | 3,144 | |
| 1980s | 7,178 | |
| 1990s | 19,665 | |
| 2000s | 12,436 | |
| 2010s | 6,546 | |
| 2020s | 2,011 |
In 1994, its biggest year
Darius was the 155th 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 Darius
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dariouspeak 1993
- Deandrepeak 1994
- Ravonpeak 1996
- Davonpeak 1994
- Dashonpeak 1997
- Keenanpeak 1997
- Darriuspeak 1994
- Kodypeak 1993
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.