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Darah

Feminine

1951high 1988
#4352 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare32 girls in 2025

Darah appears once in Chronicles among the sons of Judah, and it is also close to the Persian Dara — a king's name.

How old is the name Darah?

Darah first appears in US birth records in 1951 — 74 years ago. The typical Darah alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 1,100 people named Darah are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Darah most popular?

Darah peaked in 1984, reaching #2851 nationally. Today it ranks #4352, 1,501 places below that high. See the whole 1984 chart.

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Where it comes from

Our story of Darah

Ours, offered as ours. Names that appear once in a genealogy and nowhere else are a distinct category — they survived because the lists were copied and read for two and a half thousand years, and because early modern Protestants went through the genealogies looking for names nobody else was using. Dara in Chronicles is one of them. The Persian Dara is a king, and Hebrew dar is mother-of-pearl. Three possibilities and no way to choose.

Meaningscholars disagree

Not established

The biblical Dara is named once and its meaning is not recorded. Separately Persian Dara is a form of Darius, holding firm the good, and Hebrew dar means a pearl or mother-of-pearl. None is established for this spelling.

Pronouncing Darah

DAR-ah

Two syllables, first stressed. Some families say dah-RAH.

Nicknames for Darah

Moderate

DarThe front clip
RahTakes the ending
DariA softened household form
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1951–202535180353219512025

US babies named Darah per year from 1951 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#28511950s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1951
Most girls named
198835 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#2851reached in 1984
Change vs 2024
+18.5%32 in 2025, from 27
Darah sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 1988, with 35 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Darah in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Dara in Hebrew — related form
  • Dara in Persian — related form
  • Dáire in Irish — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas.

Darahs among us

1,100

people named Darah are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was named Darah

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Darah

#4352
Darah on the 2025 chart
#723
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Darah went to 32 girls in 2025, but Dara is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 239, which makes it the 723rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,629 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 6,725 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 50,227 for Darah itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Janalyn test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Darah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Janalyn climbed just as high around 1949, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Janalyn's path sketches the road Darah is walking now.

40%chance Darah will feel dated by 2040
Darah, aligned on its peakJanalyn· peak 1949not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-30 yrs+70 yrsJanalyn · #12508Darah today
Darah today is about where Janalyn stood in 1990 — 41 years past a #2850-sized peak. By 2005, Janalyn had settled around #13390.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Darah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Darah is headed

19512030

US babies named Darah per year, 1951 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Darah looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 16% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.

Rising+16% by 2030projected around #4,017 in 2030

Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Darah beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Darah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Darahthis name32#4352Sigrid32#4352Adel32#4352Lovella32#4352Kaysha32#4352

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • Five letters and two syllables, quick to write.
  • Three real traditions produce the sound.
  • Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
What to consider
  • The stress is unsettled between the two syllables.
  • Darah, Dara and Daria are all close and get confused.
  • There is no documented meaning for this spelling.

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Frequently asked

How many Darahs are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Darah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Darah?
Darah is one of 2 recorded spellings. Dara is the more common one — 207 births in 2025 against 32 for Darah.
How popular is the name Darah in 2025?
Darah ranks #4352 among US girl names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Darah?
About 1 in every 50,227 US girls born in 2025 was named Darah — 32 in all.
Will my child share the name Darah with classmates?
Darah will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Darah

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Sigrid#4352 · Adel#4352 · Lovella#4352 · Kaysha#4352 · Arissa#4352 · Joseline#4352 · Yajaira#4352 · Elma#4352

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