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Darley

Darley is a girl's name that peaked in 1951, when it was the 4,833rd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 12 Darleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 2.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Darley boys named Darley

By the numbers

Total US births
18
Estimated living today
12
Median age today
2
Peak year
1951
Best rank
4,833rd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1936
Girls / boys
12 / 6

Names of 1951

The most popular girls’ names the year Darley peaked:

All the names of 1951

Darley elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Darley 19 4,634th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.