Hello, worldnames
Hello, my name isGirlBoy

Darby

Pronounced /ˈdɑːbi/

Rank in 2024
#3,200
Born in 2024
50
Peak year
1995 · #500
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:10 in 2024 (#8,156)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
00.10.20.318801900192019401960198020002020
Hover or tap the chart for any year. Per 1,000 adjusts for how many babies were born that year.
Compare Darby with other names

Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 50 girls were named Darby, about 1 in every 32,264.
  • It peaked in 1995 with 491 babies, ranked #500.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1936.
  • 8,269 girls have been named Darby since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Darby per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 94 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 593 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 887 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,187 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,383 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,125 babies, 0.06 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From the English place name Derby, from Old Norse djúr (“deer”) + býr (“settlement”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈdɑːbi/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Darby, CC BY-SA 4.0.