Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from the town name Derby, which comes from Old Norse dýr meaning “animal” and býr meaning “farm” or “settlement.”
20062006: 156 births, rank #1,440
2007: 189 births, rank #1,292
2008: 161 births, rank #1,461
2009: 136 births, rank #1,639
2010: 152 births, rank #1,481
20112011: 136 births, rank #1,592
2012: 118 births, rank #1,744
2013: 119 births, rank #1,737
2014: 106 births, rank #1,892
2015: 110 births, rank #1,861
20162016: 120 births, rank #1,735
2017: 123 births, rank #1,721
2018: 89 births, rank #2,130
2019: 89 births, rank #2,109
2020: 82 births, rank #2,196
20212021: 95 births, rank #2,024
2022: 68 births, rank #2,579
2023: 74 births, rank #2,415
2024: 51 births, rank #3,119
20252025: 68 births, rank #2,564
Darby rose from #989 to #952 for girls between 2001 and 2002. Its highest annual birth count came in 1995, with 491 births.