Darcell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Darcell

The Social Security Administration has registered 506 babies named Darcell between 1951 and 1990, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Darcell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1990. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 32 babies received it in a single year. Darcell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 170 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Darcell performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Darcell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Darcell in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Darcell 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 506 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.