Dariuš
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Dariuš is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Lithuania it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Dārīus, from Ancient Greek Δᾱρεῖος (Dāreîos), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎢𐏁 (d-a-r-y-u-š /dārayauš/), shortened form of 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 (d-a-r-y-v-u-š /dārayava(h)uš/), see it f.
- USUnited States1 in 8.1K(measured from records)
- LTLithuania≈1 in 10K
- MDMoldova1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
40,835 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Darius in US United States, LT Lithuania, NO Norway and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- LatinDārīus(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΔᾱρεῖοςDāreîos(measured from records)
- Old Persian𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎢𐏁d-a-r-y-u-š /dārayauš/(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin Dārīus, from Ancient Greek Δᾱρεῖος (Dāreîos), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎢𐏁 (d-a-r-y-u-š /dārayauš/), shortened form of 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 (d-a-r-y-v-u-š /dārayava(h)uš/), see it for more.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dariuš counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 40,835 | 1 in 8.1K | 41K | Darius | 193 |
| MD Moldova | — | 3,091 | 1 in 1.1K | 3.1K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 653 | 1 in 8.4K | 2.5K | Darius | 37 |
| SE Sweden | — | 625 | 1 in 16K | 625 | Darius | 26 |
| ES Spain | — | 481 | 1 in 104K | 481 | Darius | 28 |
| LT Lithuania | #6 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 23K | Darius | 136 |
| IS Iceland | — | 89 | 1 in 3.9K | 89 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 80 | 1 in 9.4K | 80 | — | — |
40,835 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Registrų centras — top-50 given names; e-services.md — living population register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dariuš mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Dārīus, from Ancient Greek Δᾱρεῖος (Dāreîos), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎢𐏁 (d-a-r-y-u-š /dārayauš/), shortened form of 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 (d-a-r-y-v-u-š /dārayava(h)uš/), see it f… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and 6 other sources.
- Is Dariuš a male or female name?
- Dariuš is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Dariuš have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 41 thousand people named Dariuš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled darius.
- Where is Dariuš most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dariuš is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dariuš?
- In the United States, the national register counted 40,835 people named Dariuš in 2020, about 1 in 8.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Dariuš compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Dariuš is the 6th most common given name of 5,944 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dariuš” — the 6th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.