Daragh

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Daragh: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Daragh: Recorded every year since 1964, it reached #80 in 2001, and it stood at #509 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
106times a registrar ranked it
62years from first to last
#80highest recorded position
22groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Daragh's record

Ranked every year since 1964, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#1257
1998	#1367
1999	#1505
2000	#3036
2001	#1949
2002	#2005
2003	#2470
2004	#1878
2005	#2754
2006	#2870
2008	#3158
2009	#3744
2010	#2629
2011	#1788
2012	#2458
2015	#4747
2017	#3449
2024	#4270

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in every year from 1964 to 2025.

In 2024: #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #520 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #4270 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1964–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #181 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1964–2025
Highest recorded position: #80 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2001 (recorded 1964–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #509 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Daragh appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 62 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 2,382 births with the name.

Daragh across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Daragh's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#181 (1964)	#80 (2001)	#509 (2025)	62 of 62	2,382 (1964–2025)	77 (2009)
England and Wales · Boys	#1168 (1996)	#1168 (1996)	#4270 (2024)	19 of 29	124 (1996–2024)	12 (2011)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#272 (1998)	#188 (2010)	#404 (2024)	20 of 27	116 (1998–2024)	12 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#380 (1966)	#303 (1969)	#516 (1984)	5 of 19	19 (1966–1984)	7 (1969)

Daragh by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Daragh in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	89	6 of 10	15
1970s	427	10 of 10	43
1980s	381	10 of 10	38
1990s	477	10 of 10	48
2000sbusiest	649	10 of 10	65
2010s	314	10 of 10	31
2020s	45	6 of 10	8

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 65 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2009 and 2010, when recorded births fell by 33, from 77 to 44.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Daragh appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #80 in Republic of Ireland in 2001.

Daragh's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1788	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1878	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1367	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1257	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1168	11	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#270	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#255	7	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#363	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#320	5	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#222	9	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#281	6	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#247	7	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#261	6	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#188	12	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#293	5	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#198	11	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#222	8	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#243	4	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#243	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#206	6	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#272	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#436	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#364	10	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#361	11	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#257	18	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#401	9	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#240	22	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#184	31	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#194	29	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#220	26	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#171	38	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#135	52	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#157	45	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#159	44	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#99	77	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#130	58	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#108	66	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#123	47	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#88	72	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#86	71	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#88	69	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#95	54	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#80	71	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#82	64	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#92	52	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#95	45	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#95	54	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#102	55	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#101	50	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#102	53	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#111	49	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#136	30	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#127	35	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#98	54	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#114	41	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#93	56	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#128	33	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#112	39	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#122	35	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#146	23	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#109	47	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#137	29	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#115	45	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#126	33	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#119	42	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#119	37	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#142	24	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#122	35	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#111	43	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#114	39	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#99	57	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#107	51	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#466	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#101	56	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#447	3	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#102	43	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#303	7	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#113	29	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	male	#114	27	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#176	9	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	3	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#159	10	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#181	7	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	male	#181	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1964 and 2025, ranked in 62 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #80, first reached in 2001.

It held a top-100 place in 13 years, 9 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 77 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 2009.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 34 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Darby · #638, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Grzegorz · #79, 60y
Emmet · #82, 61y
Mikael · #78, 67y
Cliona · #83, 59y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Dolores · #80, 56y
Imelda · #80, 53y
Rosaleen · #80, 51y
Rupert · #80, 35y

Daragh was ranked #80 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2001. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Daragh and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Daragh without appearing here.

Daragh moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4747 and #4747 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #3449 and #4812.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1949 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #2005 and #3225.
Glenn Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3449 and #2512 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #4270 and #5119.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3449 and #1923 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #4270 and #5119.

Moved ahead of Daragh

Anders Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2458 and #2721 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #4747 and #1673.
Aksel Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2458 and #3416 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #4747 and #1902.
Hans Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2458 and #3987 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #4747 and #3004.
Cooper Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1505 and #1850 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #1425.

Moved the opposite way to Daragh

Alexander Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daragh went from #181 to #509 while Alexander went from #116 to #55.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daragh went from #181 to #509 while Benjamin went from #139 to #83.
Conor Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daragh went from #181 to #509 while Conor went from #56 to #16.
Liam Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daragh went from #181 to #509 while Liam went from #54 to #7.

Moved the same way as Daragh

Adrian Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daragh went from #181 to #509 and Adrian from #65 to #348.
Alfred Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daragh went from #181 to #509 and Alfred from #134 to #286.
Denis Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daragh went from #181 to #509 and Denis from #21 to #232.
Frank Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Daragh went from #181 to #509 and Frank from #164 to #286.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #80 in Republic of Ireland in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Daragh

Daragh at a glance

What stands out in Daragh's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Daragh across 4 official records

Daragh by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Daragh appears in

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What the record shows

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What stands out in Daragh's record

Daragh across 4 official records

Daragh by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Daragh appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Daragh

Daragh and the names beside it

Daragh moved ahead of

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