Darius

What Darius means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Darius yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1994, with 2,184 babies; 322 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Darius?

US: Falling: down from #501 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #399 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1994, when 2,184 boys got the name (#155 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 5,305 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,357 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MS (0.46 per 1,000 boys), OK (0.45 per 1,000 boys), AL (0.42 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Darius is #788 in the US and #478 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Darius were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Darrius27 US
• Derrius9 US
• Darious8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Darius

Boys

• Ahmad#669“praiseworthy”^*
• Cyrus#268Editor’s note Up from #469 in 2015 to #268 in 2025 in the US
• Casper#924Variant of Caspar, meaning “a given name”^*
• Jasper#129Editor’s note Up from #214 in 2015 to #129 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 610 US boys in the 2025 records
• Nicholas#112“victory + people”^*
• Zachary#216“Yahweh has remembered”^*

For a sister

• Jasmine#206Editor’s note Down from #110 in 2015 to #206 in 2025 in the US
• Jazmine#992Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #446 in 2015, #992 in 2025
• Jazmin#710Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2006, with 2,240 babies; 395 in 2025
• Kira#385Editor’s note Down from #361 in 2015 to #385 in 2025 in the US
• Samira#723Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1961, with 5 babies
• Soraya#862Editor’s note Up from #1,227 in 2015 to #862 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Persian where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Darius’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.