Dariah
Feminine · “holding firm the good”
Darius wrote his own name on a cliff. The Behistun inscription, cut into a rock face in western Iran around 520 before the common era, records his name and titles in three languages, and it is the text that let scholars crack cuneiform two thousand three hundred years later.
How old is the name Dariah?
Dariah first appears in US birth records in 1994 — 31 years ago. The typical Dariah is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Dariah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dariah most popular?
Dariah peaked in 2014, reaching #4455 nationally. Today it ranks #6546, 2,091 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Darayavaush to Dariah
The story of Dariah
Darius the Great ruled the Achaemenid empire from 522, and the trilingual inscription he had carved at Behistun, in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian, functioned for cuneiform exactly as the Rosetta Stone did for hieroglyphs: because the Old Persian could be read, the other two could be worked out. The feminine Daria passed into Greek, Latin and then the Slavic and Romance languages, where it is a standard name; Russia in particular uses it heavily. The Dariah spelling with a final h is American and recent, part of the general fashion for adding an h to names ending in a, and its best year on file is 2014.
Meaning
holding firm the good
Old Persian Darayavaush, combining a verb meaning to hold or possess with vahu, good, giving something like he who holds firm the good. Daria is the feminine, and it is also the name of a fourth-century martyr venerated with Chrysanthus. The final h in this spelling is a modern English addition and carries no meaning.
How the name formed
- Darayavaush
- Dareios
- Daria
- Dariah
Related forms: Darya · Daria · Daria · Darya · Daria
Pronouncing Dariah
DAR-ee-uh
Three syllables with the stress at the front. Russian and Persian say dar-YAH with two syllables and the weight at the end, which sounds like a different name.
Nicknames for Dariah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1994
- Most girls named
- 201432 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4455reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −10.5%17 in 2025, from 19
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.
Dariah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Darya in Russian — same name
- Daria in Italian — same name
- Daria in Polish — same name
- Darya in Persian — same name
- Daria in Romanian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Illinois.
Dariahs among us
people named Dariah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was named Dariah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dariah
- #6546
- Dariah on the 2025 chart
- #726
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dariah went to 17 girls in 2025, but Daria, Dariyah and Darya and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 236, which makes it the 726th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,820 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 6,810 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 94,545 for Dariah 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
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Collin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dariah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Collin climbed just as high around 1985, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Collin's path sketches the road Dariah is walking now.
Dariah 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
Dariah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dariah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Old Persian meaning and one of the great rulers of antiquity behind it.
- Dasha and Ria are two short forms from two different traditions.
- Common enough across Europe to be entirely familiar there.
- Daria without the h is the standard spelling everywhere else.
- Russian and Western pronunciations differ sharply.
- The added h dates the spelling closely to the last fifteen years.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dariahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Dariah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dariah?
- Dariah is one of 6 recorded spellings. Daria is the more common one — 107 births in 2025 against 17 for Dariah.
- How popular is the name Dariah in 2025?
- Dariah ranks #6546 among US girl names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dariah?
- About 1 in every 94,545 US girls born in 2025 was named Dariah — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dariah with classmates?
- Dariah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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