Jadarius
Masculine · “holding firm the good”
Jamarius has a Latin ending with nothing under it. Jadarius has a whole Persian king: Darius is a real name with a real meaning, and the prefix is attached to the front of it rather than to a bare syllable, which makes this one of the coinages with something inside.
How old is the name Jadarius?
Jadarius first appears in US birth records in 1986 — 39 years ago. The typical Jadarius alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 1,500 people named Jadarius are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jadarius most popular?
Jadarius peaked in 1997, reaching #1438 nationally. Today it ranks #6803, 5,365 places below that high. See the whole 1997 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Darayavaush to Jadarius
The story of Jadarius
The prefix families of American naming attach to two kinds of thing, and the distinction matters. Most often the base is a free syllable with no history, giving Jamarius, Deshawn and Latoya. Less often it is a complete established name, giving Jadarius from Darius, Dalvin from Alvin, Deandre from Andre. The second group carries a real etymology at one remove, which is worth knowing when someone asks what the name means: the honest answer is that Darius means what it means and the prefix means nothing. Darius himself ruled the Achaemenid empire from 522 before the common era and left his name carved on a cliff at Behistun. Jadarius's best year in United States records is 1997.
Meaningscholars disagree
holding firm the good, with a modern prefix
Old Persian Darayavaush, from a verb meaning to hold or possess and vahu, good, giving he who holds firm the good. Whether the meaning travels through the Ja- prefix is arguable: prefixed names are generally treated as new words rather than modified old ones. The prefix itself is a free American element with no content.
How the name formed
- Darayavaush
- Dareios
- Darius
- Jadarius
Related forms: Jadarious · Dariush
Pronouncing Jadarius
juh-DAR-ee-us
Four syllables with the stress on the second. The -ius is two syllables in English, ee-us, exactly as in Darius itself.
Nicknames for Jadarius
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 boys named
- 200184 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1438reached in 1997
- Change vs 2024
- −40.0%12 in 2025, from 20
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.
Jadarius in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jadarious in English — spelling variant
- Dariush in Persian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Mississippi, Texas, Georgia.
Jadariuss among us
people named Jadarius are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 142,340 born in 2025 was named Jadarius
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rochester test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jadarius's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rochester climbed just as high around 1944, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rochester's path sketches the road Jadarius is walking now.
Jadarius 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
Jadarius beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jadarius in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Contains a complete Persian royal name with a settled meaning.
- Darius is available as a formal form and is fully established.
- Four syllables give it a weight most coinages lack.
- Four syllables will be shortened immediately in everyday use.
- Jadarious and Jadarius both circulate.
- Whether the Darius meaning survives the prefix is genuinely arguable.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jadariuss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Jadarius are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jadarius in 2025?
- Jadarius ranks #6803 among US boy names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jadarius?
- About 1 in every 142,340 US boys born in 2025 was named Jadarius — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jadarius with classmates?
- Jadarius will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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