girls:
361 births since 1991
#5355 (6th percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1960
#2196 (52nd percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1960
#4568 (41st percentile)
The name Darrien is the #4,568 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,592 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 41.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,196 (52.1% percentile) for all time with 3,231 births since 1960. For girls, it ranks #5,355 (6.3% percentile) for all time with 361 births since 1991.
Darrien first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for boys and 1991 for girls).
The name Darrien has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Darrien were boys.
For boys, Darrien reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 18.1% percentile (ranked #655) with 75 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 75 births per million (ranked 18.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Darrien ranks #892 for boys (2.1% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 17.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darrien reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #802) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 27 births per million (ranked 5.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darrien".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Darrien. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.1% confident that Darrien is pronounced as DEH-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAH-ree-uhn, at 24.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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