Meaning not yet researched.
Darby: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 68 in 2025. Its best rank was #499 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #499 in 1995; #2,564 in 2025. About 84% of babies named Darby in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,564 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #499.
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Darby: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 68 girls in 2025. Peak: #499 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 491 (1995).
In 2025, 68 US girls were named Darby, making it the 2,564th most common girls’ name of the year, up 567 places from #3,131 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 51 girls named Darby in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #499, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 491. For comparison, it was #1,863 in 2015 and #2,362 in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Darby, making it the 6,540th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,352 places from #7,892 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 10 boys named Darby in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #721, reached in 1970. That year also had the most boys given the name: 130. For comparison, it was #3,902 in 2015 and #2,469 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Darby in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 11,278 US babies have been given the name, 74% of them girls and 26% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,965 babies named Darby.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 859 US girls were named Darby; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 123. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Darby ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,513 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Darbi, Darbie and Darbey are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Darbi (668), Darbie (397), Darbey (25), Darbee (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Darby in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 5 | #1,513 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,697 | #2,421 |
| California | 5 | #3,210 | #3,547 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,564 | 13 | #6,540 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,131 | 10 | #7,892 |
| 2023 | 74 | #2,425 | 20 | #4,916 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,584 | 13 | #6,571 |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,029 | 22 | #4,521 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,200 | 18 | #5,077 |
| 2019 | 89 | #2,113 | 20 | #4,837 |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,135 | 31 | #3,552 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,724 | 22 | #4,499 |
| 2016 | 120 | #1,736 | 17 | #5,365 |
| 2015 | 110 | #1,863 | 27 | #3,902 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,897 | 29 | #3,629 |
| 2013 | 119 | #1,739 | 32 | #3,351 |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,746 | 40 | #2,915 |
| 2011 | 136 | #1,592 | 37 | #3,065 |
| 2010 | 152 | #1,483 | 46 | #2,645 |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,643 | 23 | #4,311 |
| 2008 | 161 | #1,463 | 37 | #3,117 |
| 2007 | 189 | #1,294 | 42 | #2,827 |
| 2006 | 156 | #1,441 | 37 | #2,992 |
| 2005 | 197 | #1,169 | 25 | #3,739 |
| 2004 | 188 | #1,192 | 25 | #3,658 |
| 2003 | 215 | #1,054 | 46 | #2,319 |
| 2002 | 235 | #952 | 35 | #2,703 |
| 2001 | 217 | #989 | 36 | #2,632 |
| 2000 | 254 | #866 | 40 | #2,389 |
| 1999 | 298 | #751 | 36 | #2,476 |
| 1998 | 330 | #686 | 39 | #2,286 |
| 1997 | 401 | #578 | 36 | #2,320 |
| 1996 | 431 | #542 | 33 | #2,390 |
| 1995 | 491 | #499 | 48 | #1,808 |
| 1994 | 321 | #666 | 35 | #2,263 |
| 1993 | 126 | #1,327 | 32 | #2,358 |
| 1992 | 74 | #1,898 | 42 | #1,926 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,219 | 32 | #2,243 |
| 1990 | 68 | #1,994 | 33 | #2,183 |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,841 | 35 | #2,039 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,803 | 31 | #2,046 |
| 1987 | 51 | #2,138 | 28 | #2,128 |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,126 | 26 | #2,175 |
| 1985 | 84 | #1,476 | 27 | #2,085 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,707 | 26 | #2,051 |
| 1983 | 67 | #1,650 | 30 | #1,833 |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,726 | 25 | #2,126 |
| 1981 | 95 | #1,321 | 33 | #1,734 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,104 | 20 | #2,460 |
| 1979 | 55 | #1,903 | 36 | #1,602 |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,831 | 57 | #1,178 |
| 1977 | 50 | #1,957 | 44 | #1,375 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,752 | 56 | #1,145 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,028 | 50 | #1,196 |
| 1974 | 71 | #1,430 | 73 | #955 |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,837 | 77 | #916 |
| 1972 | 71 | #1,397 | 88 | #858 |
| 1971 | 88 | #1,255 | 96 | #824 |
| 1970 | 83 | #1,295 | 130 | #721 |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,650 | 102 | #770 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,652 | 61 | #933 |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,565 | 31 | #1,370 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,928 | 34 | #1,307 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,072 | 16 | #2,000 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,926 | 26 | #1,551 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,957 | 30 | #1,432 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,709 | 36 | #1,299 |
| 1961 | 53 | #1,555 | 35 | #1,354 |
| 1960 | 51 | #1,566 | 37 | #1,303 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,923 | 47 | #1,130 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,880 | 36 | #1,281 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,128 | 24 | #1,642 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,876 | 15 | #2,108 |
| 1955 | 51 | #1,407 | 20 | #1,739 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,088 | 21 | #1,673 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,610 | 18 | #1,847 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,342 | 13 | #2,172 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,602 | 18 | #1,787 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,362 | 10 | #2,469 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,850 | 11 | #2,368 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,714 | 10 | #2,484 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,096 | 15 | #2,007 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,405 | 12 | #2,177 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,953 | 6 | #3,065 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,091 | 8 | #2,780 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,062 | 9 | #2,562 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,642 | 7 | #2,929 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,008 | 10 | #2,360 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,200 | 6 | #3,186 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,516 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #2,967 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,324 | 7 | #2,938 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,780 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,432 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,893 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,162 |
| 1928 | — | — | 10 | #2,696 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,196 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,628 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #3,921 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,449 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,562 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,831 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,045 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #3,955 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,563 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).