Dariela
Feminine · “he who holds firm the good”
Dariela is a Spanish-language feminine built on Darío, and Darío goes back to one of the great names of the ancient world: the Persian king whose throne name declared that he held the good firmly.
How old is the name Dariela?
Dariela first appears in US birth records in 1986 — 39 years ago. The typical Dariela is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Dariela are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dariela most popular?
Dariela peaked in 2025, reaching #3211 nationally. Today it ranks #3211, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From Darayavaush to Dariela
The story of Dariela
Darayavaush was the throne name of the Achaemenid king who built Persepolis and cut the Behistun inscription, and Greek historians made his name familiar to the whole Mediterranean. It reached Spanish through Latin as Darío, helped by a much later Nicaraguan poet who took it as his own. Spanish makes feminines freely — Daniela from Daniel, Gabriela from Gabriel — and Dariela belongs to that pattern, appearing in Latin American records in recent decades.
Meaning
he who holds firm the good
From Old Persian Darayavaush, a throne name built on elements meaning to hold and good; Greek rendered it Dareios and Latin Darius, from which Spanish Darío descends.
How the name formed
- Darayavaush
- Dareios
- Darius
- Darío
- Dariela
Related forms: Daría · Daria · Darya · Darius
Pronouncing Dariela
dah-ree-EH-lah
Four syllables with the stress on the third. English speakers usually say dar-ee-EL-uh.
Nicknames for Dariela
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
- 1986
- Most girls named
- 202249 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3211reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +2.1%49 in 2025, from 48
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.
Dariela in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Daría in Spanish — related form
- Daria in Italian — related form
- Darya in Russian — related form
- Darius in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New Jersey.
Darielas among us
people named Dariela are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 32,801 born in 2025 was named Dariela
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dariela
- #3211
- Dariela on the 2025 chart
- #894
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dariela went to 49 girls in 2025, but Dariella is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 66, which makes it the 894th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,317 places above the chart.
- Dariela49
- Dariella17
About 1 girl in 24,353 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 32,801 for Dariela 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 Marit test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dariela's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marit climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marit's path sketches the road Dariela is walking now.
Dariela 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 Dariela is headed
Dariela should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Dariela beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dariela in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented line running back to an Achaemenid throne name cut in stone.
- It follows a completely standard Spanish pattern, so it never sounds invented.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at first sight.
- Daniela is far more common and will be heard and written in its place.
- Four syllables is long for early handwriting and for American forms.
- Dariela, Darielly and Daryela all appear in the records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Darielas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Dariela are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dariela?
- Dariela is the most-used spelling in US records — 49 of the 66 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Dariella.
- How popular is the name Dariela in 2025?
- Dariela ranks #3211 among US girl names in 2025, with 49 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dariela?
- About 1 in every 32,801 US girls born in 2025 was named Dariela — 49 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dariela with classmates?
- Dariela will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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