Darby
#2,564 for girls in 2025, 68 births · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to girls 73.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 491 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,338since 1936
Darby over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,564 | 68 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #3,119 | 51 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #2,415 | 74 | #4,886 | 20 |
| 2022 | #2,579 | 68 | #6,479 | 13 |
| 2021 | #2,024 | 95 | #4,494 | 22 |
| 2020 | #2,196 | 82 | #5,041 | 18 |
| 2019 | #2,109 | 89 | #4,806 | 20 |
| 2018 | #2,130 | 89 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #1,721 | 123 | #4,466 | 22 |
| 2016 | #1,735 | 120 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #1,861 | 110 | #3,882 | 27 |
| 2014 | #1,892 | 106 | #3,617 | 29 |
| 2013 | #1,737 | 119 | #3,339 | 32 |
| 2012 | #1,744 | 118 | #2,905 | 40 |
| 2011 | #1,592 | 136 | #3,046 | 37 |
| 2010 | #1,481 | 152 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2009 | #1,639 | 136 | #4,278 | 23 |
| 2008 | #1,461 | 161 | #3,103 | 37 |
| 2007 | #1,292 | 189 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2006 | #1,440 | 156 | #2,979 | 37 |
| 2005 | #1,168 | 197 | #3,710 | 25 |
| 2004 | #1,191 | 188 | #3,636 | 25 |
| 2003 | #1,054 | 215 | #2,312 | 46 |
| 2002 | #951 | 235 | #2,685 | 35 |
| 2001 | #989 | 217 | #2,618 | 36 |
| 2000 | #866 | 254 | #2,379 | 40 |
| 1999 | #750 | 298 | #2,462 | 36 |
| 1998 | #686 | 330 | #2,274 | 39 |
| 1997 | #578 | 401 | #2,311 | 36 |
| 1996 | #542 | 431 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #499 | 491 | #1,801 | 48 |
| 1994 | #666 | 321 | #2,259 | 35 |
| 1993 | #1,325 | 126 | #2,347 | 32 |
| 1992 | #1,894 | 74 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | #2,215 | 59 | #2,227 | 32 |
| 1990 | #1,989 | 68 | #2,170 | 33 |
| 1989 | #1,834 | 72 | #2,027 | 35 |
| 1988 | #1,802 | 69 | #2,035 | 31 |
| 1987 | #2,129 | 51 | #2,115 | 28 |
| 1986 | #2,116 | 50 | #2,161 | 26 |
| 1985 | #1,473 | 84 | #2,071 | 27 |
| 1984 | #1,703 | 64 | #2,036 | 26 |
| 1983 | #1,644 | 67 | #1,822 | 30 |
| 1982 | #1,720 | 65 | #2,111 | 25 |
| 1981 | #1,319 | 95 | #1,726 | 33 |
| 1980 | #2,096 | 49 | #2,444 | 20 |
| 1979 | #1,897 | 55 | #1,598 | 36 |
| 1978 | #1,824 | 55 | #1,177 | 57 |
| 1977 | #1,952 | 50 | #1,367 | 44 |
| 1976 | #1,747 | 54 | #1,144 | 56 |
| 1975 | #2,023 | 43 | #1,191 | 50 |
| 1974 | #1,428 | 71 | #953 | 73 |
| 1973 | #1,832 | 46 | #914 | 77 |
| 1972 | #1,394 | 71 | #856 | 88 |
| 1971 | #1,253 | 88 | #822 | 96 |
| 1970 | #1,293 | 83 | #721 | 130 |
| 1969 | #1,648 | 53 | #770 | 102 |
| 1968 | #1,647 | 49 | #930 | 61 |
| 1967 | #1,559 | 52 | #1,364 | 31 |
| 1966 | #1,916 | 36 | #1,299 | 34 |
| 1965 | #2,064 | 32 | #1,987 | 16 |
| 1964 | #1,918 | 38 | #1,545 | 26 |
| 1963 | #1,952 | 36 | #1,426 | 30 |
| 1962 | #1,708 | 44 | #1,295 | 36 |
| 1961 | #1,553 | 53 | #1,349 | 35 |
| 1960 | #1,561 | 51 | #1,295 | 37 |
| 1959 | #1,918 | 34 | #1,129 | 47 |
| 1958 | #1,872 | 34 | #1,277 | 36 |
| 1957 | #2,121 | 27 | #1,634 | 24 |
| 1956 | #1,871 | 33 | #2,091 | 15 |
| 1955 | #1,404 | 51 | #1,725 | 20 |
| 1954 | #2,076 | 26 | #1,668 | 21 |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 | #1,836 | 18 |
| 1952 | #2,327 | 20 | #2,153 | 13 |
| 1951 | #2,577 | 16 | #1,774 | 18 |
| 1950 | #2,341 | 18 | #2,438 | 10 |
| 1949 | #1,845 | 27 | #2,337 | 11 |
| 1948 | #1,708 | 30 | #2,443 | 10 |
| 1947 | #2,089 | 22 | #1,988 | 15 |
| 1946 | #2,392 | 16 | #2,143 | 12 |
| 1945 | #2,916 | 10 | #2,996 | 6 |
| 1944 | #1,967 | 19 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,079 | 18 | #2,732 | 8 |
| 1942 | #2,046 | 18 | #2,523 | 9 |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 | #2,872 | 7 |
| 1940 | #2,963 | 9 | #2,322 | 10 |
| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 | #3,113 | 6 |
| 1938 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | #2,854 | 7 |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,393 | 10 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
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| 1928 | — | #2,659 | 10 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,139 | 8 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,588 | 11 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
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| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1936
The first year at least five girls were named Darby! It came in at #4,181, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1936–1938, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 555 spots since 2024 (#3,119 → #2,564)
- 368 spots since 2020 (#2,196 → #2,564)
- 703 spots since 2015 (#1,861 → #2,564)
- Biggest jump: 659 spots in 1994 (#1,325 → #666)
- Biggest drop: 123 spots in 2001 (#866 → #989)
Rise & fade · girls
59 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1936
- Peaked 1995 at #499 (491 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 9 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1994–2002
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,582
- Highest: 1 in 3,582 girls born in 1995 were named Darby (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
- 31.2% of all girls named Darby (2,599) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1979
- Mostly boys until 1978, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 13 | #3,145 (1939) | #3,663 |
| 1940s | 176 | #1,708 (1948) | #2,356 |
| 1950s | 276 | #1,404 (1955) | #2,110 |
| 1960s | 444 | #1,553 (1961) | #1,753 |
| 1970s | 616 | #1,253 (1971) | #1,664 |
| 1980s | 666 | #1,319 (1981) | #1,784 |
| 1990s | 2,599 | #499 (1995) | #1,114 |
| 2000s | 1,948 | #866 (2000) | #1,205 |
| 2010s | 1,162 | #1,481 (2010) | #1,800 |
| 2020s | 438 | #2,024 (2021) | #2,483 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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