girls:
971 births since 1988
#4745 (17th percentile)
boys:
3.4k births since 1960
#2141 (53rd percentile)
overall:
4.4k births since 1960
#4130 (47th percentile)
The name Darrian is the #4,130 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,387 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 46.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,141 (53.3% percentile) for all time with 3,416 births since 1960. For girls, it ranks #4,745 (17.0% percentile) for all time with 971 births since 1988.
Darrian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for boys and 1988 for girls). Birth data for Darrian is available in 63 out of the 64 years between 1960 and 2023 (63 years for boys and 25 years for girls). 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 Darrian has been given predominantly to boys, with 77.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Darrian were boys.
For boys, Darrian reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 23.5% percentile (ranked #594) with 93 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 93 births per million (ranked 23.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1997, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Darrian ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 7.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darrian reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 17.2% percentile (ranked #700) with 77 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 77 births per million (ranked 17.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darrian".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Darrian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.3% confident that Darrian is pronounced as DEH-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAH-ree-uhn, at 32.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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