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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Darby” in the USA?

Number of people named “Darby” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Darby” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Darby” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Darby” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Darby” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Darby” by birth year

This chart shows how “Darby” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1925 11 0.000004714 11 -100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 -100%
1928 10 0.000004423 10 -100%
1931 7 0.000003326 7 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1934 10 0.000004815 10 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1936 12 0.000005776 5 7 -17%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 -100%
1938 9 0.000004068 9 -100%
1939 14 0.000006354 8 6 14%
1940 19 0.000008251 9 10 -5%
1941 14 0.000005746 7 7 0%
1942 27 0.000009884 18 9 33%
1943 26 0.000009211 18 8 38%
1944 19 0.000007063 19 100%
1945 16 0.000006031 10 6 25%
1946 28 0.000008763 16 12 14%
1947 37 0.000010271 22 15 19%
1948 40 0.000011586 30 10 50%
1949 38 0.000010905 27 11 42%
1950 28 0.000007992 18 10 29%
1951 34 0.00000923 16 18 -6%
1952 33 0.000008689 20 13 21%
1953 35 0.000009082 17 18 -3%
1954 47 0.000011807 26 21 11%
1955 71 0.000017683 51 20 44%
1956 48 0.000011642 33 15 38%
1957 51 0.000012137 27 24 6%
1958 70 0.000016933 34 36 -3%
1959 81 0.000019481 34 47 -16%
1960 88 0.000021185 51 37 16%
1961 88 0.000021244 53 35 20%
1962 80 0.000019825 44 36 10%
1963 66 0.000016674 36 30 9%
1964 64 0.000016463 38 26 19%
1965 48 0.00001324 32 16 33%
1966 70 0.00002014 36 34 3%
1967 83 0.000024448 52 31 25%
1968 110 0.00003256 49 61 -11%
1969 155 0.0000446 53 102 -32%
1970 213 0.00005906 83 130 -22%
1971 184 0.000053608 88 96 -4%
1972 159 0.000050589 71 88 -11%
1973 123 0.000040771 46 77 -25%
1974 144 0.000047368 71 73 -1%
1975 93 0.000030801 43 50 -8%
1976 109 0.000035923 54 55 -1%
1977 95 0.000029907 50 45 5%
1978 112 0.000035288 55 57 -2%
1979 91 0.000027352 55 36 21%
1980 69 0.000020032 49 20 42%
1981 128 0.000037001 95 33 48%
1982 90 0.000025656 65 25 44%
1983 97 0.000028008 67 30 38%
1984 90 0.000025797 64 26 42%
1985 111 0.0000311 84 27 51%
1986 76 0.000021366 50 26 32%
1987 79 0.00002191 51 28 29%
1988 100 0.000027063 69 31 38%
1989 107 0.000027832 72 35 35%
1990 101 0.000025554 68 33 35%
1991 91 0.000023362 59 32 30%
1992 116 0.000030198 74 42 28%
1993 158 0.000041907 126 32 59%
1994 356 0.000095759 321 35 80%
1995 539 0.000147181 491 48 82%
1996 464 0.000127221 431 33 86%
1997 437 0.000120527 401 36 84%
1998 369 0.000100321 330 39 79%
1999 334 0.00009042 298 36 78%
2000 294 0.00007778 254 40 73%
2001 253 0.000067586 217 36 72%
2002 270 0.000072226 235 35 74%
2003 261 0.000068642 215 46 65%
2004 213 0.000055746 188 25 77%
2005 222 0.00005774 197 25 77%
2006 193 0.000048784 156 37 62%
2007 231 0.000057783 189 42 64%
2008 198 0.000050373 161 37 63%
2009 159 0.000041621 136 23 71%
2010 198 0.000053575 152 46 54%
2011 173 0.000047296 136 37 57%
2012 158 0.0000432 118 40 49%
2013 151 0.000041419 119 32 58%
2014 135 0.000036424 106 29 57%
2015 137 0.000037018 110 27 61%
2016 137 0.000037343 120 17 75%
2017 145 0.000040546 123 22 70%
2018 120 0.000034131 89 31 48%
2019 109 0.000031404 89 20 63%
2020 100 0.000029935 82 18 64%
2021 117 0.000034534 95 22 62%
2022 81 0.000023942 68 13 68%
2023 94 0.000028389 74 20 57%
2024 60 0.000018026 50 10 67%

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