Given name · also Latin
Dariusz
Dariusz is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Old Persian. It is used in Polish.
Original LatinDarius
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Dariusz comes from Latin, and ultimately from Old Persian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Polish usage, Dariusz developed from 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎢𐏁. In Polish usage, Dariusz is a short form of 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dariusz through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 130
- 130 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2004. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,554 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.
Dariusz’s family of names
In Polish usage, Dariusz has a diminutive in Darek. In Polish usage, Dariusz has a feminine form in Daria. In Polish usage, Dariusz has a conventional equivalent in the German form Darius.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dariusz has relatives in 16 languages. Lines run from its Persian roots to each of them.
14 related names in 16 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- DariusLatin, German
- DarioItalian, Esperanto
- Dariafeminine form · Polish
- Dáriusequivalent
- ДарийRussian, Bulgarian
- Daríusequivalent
- ДарійUkrainian
- DareiosSwedish
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People named Dariusz
- Dariusz DudkaPolish footballerborn 1983
- Darjuš LavrinovičLithuanian basketball player (born 1979)
- Dariusz MichalczewskiPolish-German boxerborn 1968
- Dariusz WoszGerman football player and coachborn 1969
- Dariusz JemielniakPolish professor of management, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees memberborn 1975
- Dariusz DziekanowskiPolish footballerborn 1962
- Dariusz WolskiPolish cinematographerborn 1956
- Dariusz RosatiPolish economistborn 1946
- Dariusz KowalukPolish athletics competitorborn 1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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