Darby
Darby is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 50 births. Its best rank was 499th, in 1995.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 500.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1995491 births
- Best rank
- #499in 1995
- Since 1936
- 11,196people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,269 girls have been named Darby in the United States since 1936, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 491 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 1990s alone account for 31%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Darby is used for both sexes: 26% of its bearers are boys (2,927), most of them born around 1970.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Darby | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 13 | |
| 1940s | 176 | |
| 1950s | 276 | |
| 1960s | 444 | |
| 1970s | 616 | |
| 1980s | 666 | |
| 1990s | 2,599 | |
| 2000s | 1,948 | |
| 2010s | 1,162 | |
| 2020s | 369 |
In 1995, its biggest year
Darby was the 499th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1995 were Jessica, Ashley, Emily, Samantha and Sarah. See all of 1995.
Names that rose and fell with Darby
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rayannepeak 1999
- Michaellapeak 1997
- Shayepeak 1998
- Michaelapeak 1997
- Dayshapeak 1996
- Kianapeak 1996
- Bibianapeak 1999
- Yasmeenpeak 1997
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.