Darrion
Masculine
Darrion is given to both — 4,398 boys and 149 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Darrion is Darren stretched by a syllable, and it lands in the same place as Marion, Damarion and Demarion, a group of American names that all end on the same soft -ion. It has the long, unhurried rhythm those names share: three beats with the weight in front.
How old is the name Darrion?
Darrion first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Darrion alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 4,300 people named Darrion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Darrion most popular?
Darrion peaked in 1994, reaching #702 nationally. Today it ranks #4707, 4,005 places below that high. See the whole 1994 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Darrion
The -ion ending is the interesting part. From the nineteen-eighties American families began adding it to short names to give them length and a formal finish: Darren to Darrion, Demar to Demarion, Jamar to Jamarion. The result was a set of names that sound Latinate without coming from Latin. Darrion is one of the most successful of them. Its parts are all borrowed and its whole is entirely new, which is the ordinary way American names have been made for a century.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Nothing settled. Darius, the Persian royal name meaning roughly he who holds firm the good, is often given as the source, but the American Darrion sits closer to Darren, whose own origin is obscure, with an -ion ending added. The link to Darius cannot be shown.
Pronouncing Darrion
DAR-ee-un
Three syllables, stress in front. Some families say duh-REE-un with the weight in the middle; both are heard and the spelling does not choose.
Nicknames for Darrion
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
- 1961
- Most boys named
- 1994220 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #702reached in 1994
- Change vs 2024
- −30.0%21 in 2025, from 30
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.
Darrion in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Missouri, Texas, Illinois.
Darrions among us
people named Darrion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 81,337 born in 2025 was named Darrion
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Darrion
- #4707
- Darrion on the 2025 chart
- #867
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Darrion went to 21 boys in 2025, but Darion is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 61, which makes it the 867th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,840 places above the chart.
- Darion40
- Darrion21
About 1 boy in 28,001 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 81,337 for Darrion 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 Dwaine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Darrion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dwaine climbed just as high around 1951, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dwaine's path sketches the road Darrion is walking now.
Darrion 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
Darrion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Darrion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Three syllables give it a formal weight that short surname-names do not have.
- It clips easily to Dar or D.
- It sits inside a large, familiar family of American names, so nobody has to learn it.
- Darion, Darrien, Darrian and Darion all exist; this spelling will be asked for every time.
- It is close enough to Darren and Darius to be substituted by people writing quickly.
- The name is firmly of its decades and will place its owner in time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Darrions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,300 people named Darrion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Darrion?
- Darrion is one of 2 recorded spellings. Darion is the more common one — 40 births in 2025 against 21 for Darrion.
- How popular is the name Darrion in 2025?
- Darrion ranks #4707 among US boy names in 2025, with 21 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Darrion?
- About 1 in every 81,337 US boys born in 2025 was named Darrion — 21 in all.
- Will my child share the name Darrion with classmates?
- Darrion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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