Darrius

#3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births

Peak · boys
1989 · 317 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
7,689
since 1962

Darrius over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Darrius has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201981peak #543, 1989boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#3,94927
2024#3,33535
2023#2,80545
2022#3,10039
2021#2,73246
2020#2,39255
2019#2,17065
2018#2,08368
2017#2,21760
2016#2,01271
2015#1,87078
2014#1,84480
2013#1,510107
2012#1,58899
2011#1,235141
2010#1,200149
2009#1,118165
2008#1,086172
2007#1,031182
2006#941199
2005#902199
2004#934181
2003#822213
2002#788219
2001#757227
2000#675264
1999#754212
1998#633284
1997#671243
1996#648258
1995#631267
1994#578319
1993#603295
1992#591302
1991#581304
1990#569317
1989#543317
1988#705177
1987#698170
1986#796130
1985#91099
1984#854106
1983#1,04971
1982#92793
1981#1,07771
1980#1,13364
1979#1,10865
1978#1,53737
1977#1,31247
1976#1,33344
1975#2,28819
1974#1,58231
1973#2,03620
1972#1,77125
1971#1,82324
1970#2,12518
1969#1,97718
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1967#2,24213
1966#2,62710
1965#2,9828
1964#2,31013
1963#3,3187
1962#4,0335
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First appearance
1962

The first year at least five boys were named Darrius! It came in at #4,033, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1968, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Darrius
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 614 spots since 2024 (#3,335#3,949)
  • 1,557 spots since 2020 (#2,392#3,949)
  • 2,079 spots since 2015 (#1,870#3,949)
  • Biggest jump: 195 spots in 1984 (#1,049#854)
  • Biggest drop: 122 spots in 1983 (#927#1,049)
Rise & fade · boys
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1962
  • Peaked 1989 at #543 (317 births)
  • Births halved by 2010, 21 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 24 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 1984–2006
Share of babies · boys
1 in 6,057
  • Highest: 1 in 6,057 boys born in 1994 were named Darrius (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #543 in 1989, was only 1 in 6,312 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 36.4% of all boys named Darrius (2,801) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s74#1,977 (1969)#2,784
1970s330#1,108 (1979)#1,692
1980s1,298#543 (1989)#869
1990s2,801#569 (1990)#626
2000s2,021#675 (2000)#905
2010s918#1,200 (2010)#1,773
2020s247#2,392 (2020)#3,052

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Darrius in 1981

boys
#1,077
71 births · 1 in 25,228 boys

Top boys' names in 1981

  1. #1Michael68,750
  2. #2Christopher50,221
  3. #3Matthew43,330
  4. #4Jason41,927
  5. #5David40,629
  6. #6Joshua39,024
  7. #7James38,283
  8. #8John34,868
  9. #9Robert34,395
  10. #10Daniel30,985
  11. #1,077Darrius71
More about 1981

boys

1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 25,228 of them was named Darrius, which outranked 85.2% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Darrius
  1. #1,073Emerson72
  2. #1,073Justine72
  3. #1,073Rustin72
  4. #1,077Darrius71
  5. #1,077Alfonzo71
  6. #1,077Anderson71
  7. #1,077Long71
  8. #1,084Chandler70
  9. #1,084Dameon70
  10. #1,084Dujuan70

Tied with 6 names at #1,077; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1980
Risers
  1. 1,321Marchello#2,162#841
  2. 1,104Skylar#2,058#954
  3. 816Kellen#1,432#616
  4. 499Marcello#1,291#792
  5. 456Tyrel#1,089#633
Fallers
  1. 306Kenyatta#871#1,177
  2. 284Seneca#718#1,002
  3. 247Kimberly#989#1,236
  4. 216Chadd#927#1,143
  5. 214Levar#911#1,125

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1981