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Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Darien. Darien is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. A relatively small community on Connecticut's Gold Coast, the population was 20,732 at the 2010 census. Darien was listed at #9 on CNN Money's list of top-earning towns in the United States as of 2011.