first name
DARIUS
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 40,835 people named Darius, 71% reported their origin as Black, 11.7% as White and 7.9% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Darius peaked in 1994, when 2,200 babies got the name.
At least 54,278 babies have been given the name since 1880. 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.
Darius by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #328. The largest share of babies named Darius, 38.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
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 Darius is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Darius has been most common in District of Columbia (2.8×), Georgia (2.4×), and Maryland (2.3×), and least common in West Virginia (0.11×).
50,735 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 Darius
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Darius, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Darius ranks #26,329 of 156,621, with 977 people. See Darius as a last name
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