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Darrius

#3,970 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Darrius has been given to 7,689 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #3,970 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 319 recorded.

Babies named Darrius, 2025

1 in 123,000

Darrius over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Darrius: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Darrius means

Darrius is a given name.

The naming story behind Darrius

Wikidata records Darrius as a given name. The entity identifier is Q89254795, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,689 boys were recorded with the name Darrius between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 319 in 1994; its best national rank was #542 in 1989.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,399 in 2020 to #3,970 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,877 in 2015 to #3,970 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Darrius?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,970
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Darrius sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darrius. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Darriuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Darrius was born before 1997 — so the typical Darrius is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,689
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (2,801).

Is Darrius rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−626
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,571
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,093
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.5%
Peak was 1994 (319)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#542
1989

Spellings of Darrius

Darrius is not the most common spelling — Darius is, with 36.0% against Darrius's 5.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Darrius is used

Across 2016–2025, Darrius was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 56,276 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 20,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 25,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 50,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Darrius around the world

Where Darrius ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2002–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Darrius

People whose public names include Darrius, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Darrius in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Darrius. Linked forms have their own page here.

Darius

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Darrius by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,970
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,571
Best rank ever
#542
1989
Peak year
1994
319 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,689
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Darrius

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DariusDarrickDarrionDarrianDarionDarrienDarielDarronDarellDarienDarnellDarvinCassiusDaronDarianDariousDarenDarioDarwinDarrinDarrisDarrelDarrynLucius

Names with a curve like Darrius

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Darrius, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RashawnJaronDavonDandreBrandynDeonteDontaeTavonJordonTravonNigelEstevan

Sibling names for Darrius

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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