Dari

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 18 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
18
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Dari by the numbers

Dari was given to 18 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 21 babies in 1960, making it a 1960s name.

What we can tell you about Dari

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dari. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Danigod is my judge; diminutive of Daniel262 in the US (2017)
  • Daracompassion, kindness30 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Daigreat or large7 in the US (2017)
  • Deari13 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Dari

Names that are said the same way as Dari, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

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