# Dario (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dario/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Italian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,945 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 11,945 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 539, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Dario and Spanish Darío.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 235 | 885 |
| 2012 | 226 | 916 |
| 2013 | 199 | 993 |
| 2014 | 215 | 974 |
| 2015 | 234 | 916 |
| 2016 | 224 | 935 |
| 2017 | 245 | 876 |
| 2018 | 265 | 840 |
| 2019 | 234 | 932 |
| 2020 | 281 | 819 |
| 2021 | 389 | 684 |
| 2022 | 403 | 676 |
| 2023 | 412 | 663 |
| 2024 | 439 | 639 |
| 2025 | 339 | 760 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 1,788 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,669 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 24 | 1,117 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,511 |
| 2016 | 22 | 1,234 |
| 2017 | 29 | 1,021 |
| 2018 | 18 | 1,382 |
| 2019 | 17 | 1,439 |
| 2020 | 27 | 1,019 |
| 2021 | 33 | 907 |
| 2022 | 22 | 1,224 |
| 2023 | 26 | 1,108 |
| 2024 | 24 | 1,162 |
| 2025 | 36 | 873 |

## People named Dario

- Dario Šimić, Croatian footballer
- Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic
- Dario Šarić, Croatian basketball player (born 1994)
- Dario Vidošić, Australian association football player
- Dario Knežević, Croatian footballer
- Dario Dabac, Croatian association football player
- Dario Krešić, Croatian footballer
- Dario Franchitti, British racecar driver
- Dario Melnjak, Croatian footballer
- Dario Dumić, Bosnian footballer (born 1992)
- Dario Hunter, American lawyer, rabbi, educator, and politician
- Dario Damjanović, Bosnian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.