Given name & surname
Dary
“a wealthy man”
Dary is a variant of Daire. One Irish interpretation is “a wealthy man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dary is a variant of Daire. One Irish interpretation is “a wealthy man.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Dary is a variant of Daire. An origin associated with Daire is Irish.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dary through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 168
- 144 boys · 24 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 13 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 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 679 as a first name in 2020; 356 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.
Dary’s family of names
Dary has a related form in Daire. In English usage, Dary has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Дарий.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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