Darby
7
Babies in 2024
+133%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 11
—
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Darby
Darby is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (7) are up 133% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Darby reached its peak in 2017, when 11 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #2,052 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 7 represents 64% of the peak.
Across 17 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 79 boys have been officially registered with the name Darby in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 54 boys were registered with the name, starting from 3 in 2014 and ending at 7 in 2024.