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Darya

#3,533 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Darya has been given to 1,360 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #3,533 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Darya, 2025

1 in 77,100

Darya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Darya: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Darya means

Darya has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Darya

One of the source’s documented entries for Darya records a meaning of sea, ocean.

Origin, language, and formation

Darya is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Дарья.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,360 girls were recorded with the name Darya between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2007; its best national rank was #3,296 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,097 in 2020 to #3,533 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,862 in 2015 to #3,533 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Darya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 37,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,533
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Darya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daryas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Darya was born before 2009 — so the typical Darya is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,360
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (387).

Is Darya 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
−237
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+564
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+329
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.0%
Peak was 2007 (50)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,296
2024

Spellings of Darya

Darya is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 57.9% against Darya's 0.02%.

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 Darya is used

Across 1910–2025, Darya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 111,969 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —
  4. 4Virginia1 in —
  5. 5Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Darya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Darya around the world

Where Darya 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
    1998–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2017
    #808
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2009–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • France
    1998–2025
    #4,051
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #1,075
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Darya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,533
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 564
Best rank ever
#3,296
2024
Peak year
2007
50 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,360
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Darya

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

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Sibling names for Darya

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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