first name
DARIAN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 18,136 people named Darian, 38.1% reported their origin as White, 28.4% as Black and 20.7% as Hispanic or Latino. 70.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Darian peaked in 1994, when 1,543 babies got the name.
At least 23,297 babies have been given the name since 1939. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Darian by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #603. The largest share of babies named Darian, 43%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Darian is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Darian has been most common in Florida (2.3×), Colorado (2.1×), and Arizona (2.1×), and least common in West Virginia (0.25×).
18,928 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Darian
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Darian, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Darian ranks #82,069 of 156,621, with 248 people. See Darian as a last name
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