How rare is the name Darrius?

5,590 people in the United States have the first name Darrius, about 1 in 54,031. It ranks #3,649 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DARRIUS

#3,649

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,590
About
1 in 54,031
This common or more
82.8%
Who bears it

Of the 5,590 people named Darrius, 82.6% reported their origin as Black, 6.8% as two or more races and 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Darrius peaked in 1994, when 319 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19622025
Peak year
1994
Births that year
319
In 2025*
27 ▼92%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 7,689 babies have been given the name since 1962. 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.

Darrius by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,369. The largest share of babies named Darrius, 42.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#7,55974
1970s#3,832330
1980s#1,8761,298
1990s#1,3692,801
2000s#2,0392,021
2010s#3,766918
2020s#6,426247
Baby boom 1946–640.3%
Generation X 1965–805.8%
Millennials 1981–9642.9%
Generation Z 1997–1241%
2013 and later10.1%

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 Darrius is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Darrius has been most common in Mississippi (3.8×), Alabama (3.2×), and Louisiana (3.1×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.15×).

5,675 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 Darrius

#3,647 Darrick · 5,591#3,647 Harlee · 5,591#3,650 Enedina · 5,589#3,650 Homero · 5,589

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Darrius, most common first.

#1,031 Darius · 40,835#3,647 Darrick · 5,591#6,317 Dariusz · 2,554#9,922 Darris · 1,370#10,133 Daris · 1,331#11,039 Darious · 1,179#20,132 Dariush · 516#28,312 Darrious · 318

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