Dary
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dary has been given to 168 babies in the U.S. since 1955. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1958, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% boys, 14% girls all-time.
Babies named Dary, 2024
1 in 669,000
Dary over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Dary over time
In 2024, Dary went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Dary?
Dary had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dary sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Darys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dary was born before 1967 — so the typical Dary is around 58 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 34.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 144
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Dary 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1958 (9)
- Years since peak
- 67
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.9% average annual change
Spellings of Dary
Dary is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 20.3% against Dary's <0.01%.
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.
Dary around the world
Where Dary 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.
- France1985–2015#6,174in 2015
- South Australia1973–1992#538in 1992
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dary by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Dary
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dary
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.