girls:
1.8k births since 1937
#3944 (31st percentile)
boys:
10.7k births since 1949
#1125 (75th percentile)
overall:
12.5k births since 1937
#2351 (70th percentile)
The name Darien is the #2,351 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,536 recorded births since 1937. This represents the 69.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,125 (75.5% percentile) for all time with 10,692 births since 1949. For girls, it ranks #3,944 (31.0% percentile) for all time with 1,844 births since 1937.
Darien first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1937 (1937 for girls and 1949 for boys). Birth data for Darien is available in 82 out of the 87 years between 1937 and 2023 (72 years for girls and 70 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Darien has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Darien were boys. Interestingly, until around 1961, the name was more popular for girls (69.3% girls from 1937 to 1960), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (86.3% boys from 1961 to 2023).
For boys, Darien reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 53.0% percentile (ranked #365) with 298 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 298 births per million (ranked 53.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1997, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Darien ranks #785 for boys (13.8% percentile) with 72 births per million, which is 24.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darien reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 20.0% percentile (ranked #679) with 91 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 91 births per million (ranked 20.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darien".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Darien. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.8% confident that Darien is pronounced as DEH-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAH-ree-uhn, at 18.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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