Name profile

Daria

Feminine form of Darius.

PronunciationItalian /ˈdaː.rja/; Polish /ˈda.rja/; English /ˈdɑɹ.i.ə/; English /ˈdæɹ.i.ə/; Russian /ˈda.rʲjə/
Usage languagesCroatian, English, Italian, Late Roman, Polish, Romanian, Russian
US rank (2025)#1,855

Meaning and history

Daria is the feminine form of Darius. Saint Daria was a 3rd-century woman martyred with her husband Chrysanthus under the Roman emperor Numerian. It has never been a particularly common English given name, and in Russian it is more often transcribed as Darya.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 143 births, rank #1,530
2007: 141 births, rank #1,594
2008: 132 births, rank #1,685
2009: 136 births, rank #1,639
2010: 121 births, rank #1,720
20112011: 124 births, rank #1,690
2012: 91 births, rank #2,095
2013: 86 births, rank #2,173
2014: 104 births, rank #1,922
2015: 125 births, rank #1,695
20162016: 98 births, rank #2,017
2017: 96 births, rank #2,035
2018: 124 births, rank #1,677
2019: 113 births, rank #1,802
2020: 101 births, rank #1,893
20212021: 96 births, rank #2,007
2022: 114 births, rank #1,793
2023: 104 births, rank #1,903
2024: 101 births, rank #1,955
20252025: 107 births, rank #1,855

Daria moved from #741 to #826 for girls between 1998 and 1999. Its highest annual birth count came in 1998, with 294 births.