Darby — #3179 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Darby

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,269 babies named Darby between 1936 and 2024, spanning 89 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Darby currently holds the #3179 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 491 babies received it in a single year. Darby is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,927 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Darby performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,599 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Darby shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 639 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Darby in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Darby in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 8,269 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.