Darbie
Darbie was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 397 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darbie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darbie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,561, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1995, the peak
Darbie peaked in 1995, when 23 girls were given it, #4,372 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #14,561 | 3.5 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,979 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,886 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,962 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,590 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,028 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,645 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,998 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,305 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,082 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 11 | #8,361 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,205 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,941 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,616 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,372 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,047 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,988 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,120 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,464 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,236 | 2.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,037 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,778 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,829 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,860 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,381 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,352 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,233 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,947 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,389 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,433 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,810 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,850 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,352 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,617 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,551 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,222 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,939 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,141 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,965 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,404 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,402 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,551 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,265 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,134 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darbie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darbie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darbie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darbie, and how old are they?
An estimated 378 Americans named Darbie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 28 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 441 people named Darbie (427 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Darbie?
Darbie is a less common spelling of Darby: SSA has recorded 397 Darbie and 11,278 Darby since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 12,343 babies since 1880, Darbie is the third most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 81 babies recorded by SSA was a Darbie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Darbie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Darbie and names like it
- Compare Darbie and DarbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDarbie peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darbie since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Darbie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Darbie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.