Given name & surname
Dario
“a kingly man; one who is wealthy”
Dario is a variant of Darius. One Greek interpretation is “a kingly man; one who is wealthy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dario is a variant of Darius. One Greek interpretation is “a kingly man; one who is wealthy.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Late Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1909. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dario through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11,945
- 11,945 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 439 babies
- 2025
- 339
- #760 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +59%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 339 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 760 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 58.7% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (84). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 14,672 as a first name in 2020; 586 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dario’s family of names
In Italian usage, Dario has a feminine form in Daria. Dario has a related form in Darius. In Italian usage, Dario has a conventional equivalent in the French form Darius.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dario has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
9 related names in 10 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dario
- Dario FoItalian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016)
- Dario ArgentoItalian film director and screenwriter (born 1940)
- Dario ŠimićCroatian footballerborn 1975
- Dario ColognaSwiss cross-country skierborn 1986
- Dario ŠarićCroatian basketball player (born 1994)
- Dario AmodeiCEO and co-founder of Anthropicborn 1983
- Dario MarianelliItalian composerborn 1963
- Dario VidošićAustralian association football playerborn 1987
- Dario KneževićCroatian footballerborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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