Entry № 2334 · Russian origin

Darya Darya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAHR-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"Sea; gift"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Russian)

A name that means "sea; gift".

Darya has parallel origins. In Russian (Дарья), it comes from the Greek Darius — meaning "possessing goodness." In Persian (دریا), daryā means "sea" or "ocean."

Darya is widely used in Russia and Iran. Darya Klishina is the Russian Olympic long jumper.

Sea, in Persian. Possessing goodness, in Russian.

The name in its native script.

Дарья
Transliteration
Darya
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɑːr.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Darya stands.

Darya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Daryas before her.

Real people
Darya Klishina
Russian Olympic long jumper.
born 1991
In fiction
Darya
Common in Russian and Persian fiction.

Names connected to Darya.

The number behind Darya.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Darya reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.