Baby name
STABLE
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Darian
/DAIR · ee · an/
Meaning
“He who holds firm”
Variant of Darius, from Old Persian meaning he who holds firm. The softer spelling gives it an androgynous quality, used for both boys and girls in English-speaking cultures.
Nicknames
dari
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Caught between classic and invented-sounding; may not age as well as the base form Darius.
The cultural moment.
Used in the US and UK through the 1990s and 2000s, peaked around 2000.