Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Dariush isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dariush through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 154
- 154 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #7,790 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,790 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 516 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dariush’s family of names
In French usage, Dariush has a conventional equivalent in the Persian form داریوش.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dariush
- Dariush MehrjuiIranian filmmaker (1939–2023)
- DariushIranian singer and former actorborn 1951
- Dariush ShayeganIranian writer, Indologist, philosopher and poet (1935–2018)
- Dariush ForouharIranian politician (1928-1998)
- Roosh VAmerican writer and men's rights and manosphere activistborn 1979
- Dariush ArjmandIranian actorborn 1944
- Dariush MostafaviIranian footballer (1944-2025)
- Dariush TalaiPersian musicianborn 1953
- Dariush AshooriIranian writer, translator, linguist and researcherborn 1938
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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