girls:
149 births since 1991
#5567 (3rd percentile)
boys:
4.3k births since 1961
#1844 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.5k births since 1961
#4075 (47th percentile)
The name Darrion is the #4,075 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,495 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 47.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,844 (59.8% percentile) for all time with 4,346 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,567 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 149 births since 1991.
Darrion first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1991 for girls). Birth data for Darrion is available in 62 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (62 years for boys and 14 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 Darrion has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Darrion reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 26.8% percentile (ranked #568) with 108 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 108 births per million (ranked 26.8% percentile). Despite a low point around 2002, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Darrion ranks #882 for boys (3.2% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 17.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Darrion reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #824) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darrion".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Darrion. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.8% confident that Darrion is pronounced as DEH-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DA-ree-uhn, at 23.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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