Darey
Darey was given to 40 boys in 2025, #3,046 among boys’ names; 735 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darey?
#3,046 among boys’ names, 2025
Darey rose from #4,001 in 2015 to #3,046 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.6 to 23.4 per million.
117 babies in 2009, the peak
Darey peaked in 2009, when 117 boys were given it, #1,435 among boys’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,046 | 23.4 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,284 | 20.9 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,484 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,883 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,389 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,372 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,132 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,010 | 14.3 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,776 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,355 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #4,001 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 29 | #3,628 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,426 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 34 | #3,242 | 17.9 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,672 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 78 | #1,854 | 40.7 |
| 2009 | 117 | #1,435 | 59.0 |
| 2008 | 71 | #1,986 | 34.8 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,402 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,120 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,379 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Darey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darey, and how old are they?
An estimated 728 Americans named Darey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 452 people named Darey (24 women and girls, 428 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 569 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Darey born?
The states with the most babies named Darey are Arizona, Texas and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 9 | #683 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 8 | #1,948 | 2.0× |
| California | 5 | #2,549 | 1.4× |
Where Darey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darey is most over-represented in Texas: since 2005 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Darey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 15,021 babies since 1880, Darey is the third most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 392 babies (10%), the second most given that year.
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 Darey
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 Darey and names like it
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darey since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Darey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Darey alive today were born 1997-2012.
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