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Digby

Boys' name

Dyke + settlement

Digby has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2006. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Digby, 2009

1 in 764,000

Digby over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Digby: meaning, origin, and history

Dyke + settlement

surname transfer

What Digby means

Digby means “dyke + settlement”, associated with dīc and býr.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English dīc (“dyke”) + Old Norse býr (“settlement”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Digby (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Digby is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Digby comes through Old English dīc and Old Norse býr.

Digby is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Digby is pronounced /ˈdɪɡ.bi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Digby between 2006 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2006; its best national rank was #11,006 in 2006.

How common is Digby?

Digby had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 397,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Digby sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Digby. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Digbys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Digby was born before 2006 — so the typical Digby is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
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Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Digby rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (6)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,006
2006

Spellings of Digby

Digby is not the most common spelling — Kirby is, with 69.0% against Digby's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Digby around the world

Where Digby ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,307
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1945–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Digby by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,006
2006
Peak year
2006
6 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Digby

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Rigby

Sibling names for Digby

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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