Darien

Where Darien comes from

The dictionaries list Darien as a given name — a male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Darian — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1949
    First appearance
    #3,019 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1974
    Darien Sills-Evans born
    American actor
  4. 1994
    Darien Nelson-Henry born
    American basketball player
  5. 1994
    Peak, #383
    607 babies named Darien — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #744.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Darian.
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Darian.
  • A place in the United States:
  • A city in DuPage County, Illinois.
  • An unincorporated community in Dent County, Missouri.
Namesakes
  • Darien Nelson-Henry · American basketball player, born 1994
  • Darien Sills-Evans · American actor, born 1974
  • Darien Porter · American football player, born 2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.