Darcel — unisex name

What the Data Says About Darcel

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,240 babies named Darcel between 1950 and 1996, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Darcel currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1954, when 71 babies received it in a single year. Darcel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 131 additional births since 1952.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Darcel performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 516 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Darcel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 105 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Darcel in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Darcel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,240 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.