Darby

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Darby: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #638, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#638highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1646
1997	#1234
1998	#1697
1999	#2189
2000	#1831
2001	#2226
2003	#4373
2004	#3197
2005	#3970
2008	#2150
2009	#2148
2010	#3156
2011	#5785
2012	#4171
2013	#4739
2014	#4003
2015	#2705
2016	#3214
2017	#2341
2018	#2340
2019	#2869
2020	#2042
2021	#1628
2022	#1767
2023	#2689
2024	#2000

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 26 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #638 among girls in Scotland, #2000 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1646 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Darby appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 232 births with the name.

Darby across 3 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.

Darby'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
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#2052 (2017)	#2921 (2024)	17 of 29	79 (1996–2024)	11 (2017)
England and Wales · Girls	#1646 (1996)	#1234 (1997)	#2000 (2024)	26 of 29	232 (1996–2024)	18 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#701 (2009)	#676 (2025)	#676 (2025)	3 of 17	10 (2009–2025)	4 (2025)

Darby by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Darby in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	42	4 of 10	11
2000s	50	7 of 10	7
2010s	70	10 of 10	7
2020sbusiest	70	5 of 10	14

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 14 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Darby 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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #638 in Scotland in 2024.

Darby'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	female	#2000	14	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1767	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2042	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2340	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2052	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2150	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2226	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1234	15	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1646	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #638, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 18 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

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.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 28 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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Darci · #178, 30y

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.

Esmeralda · #638, 26y
Joanie · #638, 24y
Kylah · #638, 28y
Taliah · #638, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Bilaal · #638, 28y
Blythe · #638, 29y
Clover · #638, 27y
Corah · #638, 16y

Darby was ranked #638 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Darby 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 Darby without appearing here.

Darby moved ahead of

Dianne Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4003 and #4003 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1628 and #5581.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #5493.
Cooper Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2643 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2042 and #5493.
Debra Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4373 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2150 and #5545.

Moved ahead of Darby

Amalie Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2226 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #965.
Blake Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2148 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #2893.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #1628.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3011 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3937 and #2104.

Moved the opposite way to Darby

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Darby went from #1234 to #2000 while Blake went from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Darby went from #1234 to #2000 while Ezra went from #3824 to #1302.

Moved the same way as Darby

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Darby went from #1646 to #2689 and Kristin from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Darby went from #1646 to #2689 and Therese from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Darby went from #1646 to #2689 and Tracey from #783 to #5687.
Brent Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Darby went from #2863 to #4789 and Brent from #898 to #3449.

What's not yet available

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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 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #638 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Darby

Darby at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Darby across 3 official records

Darby by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Darby appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Darby moved ahead of

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Darby at a glance

Darby across 3 official records

Darby by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Darby appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Darby

Darby and the names beside it

Darby moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Darby

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