Darcey
Darcey was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,000 among girls’ names; 2,163 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,000 Americans named Darcey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 36 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darcey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darcey?
#9,000 among girls’ names, 2025
Darcey rose from #9,083 in 2015 to #9,000 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 6.8 per million.
83 babies in 1970, the peak
Darcey peaked in 1970, when 83 babies were given it (77 girls, #1,357 among girls’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,000 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,886 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,127 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,268 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,136 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,521 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,107 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,864 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,876 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,093 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,083 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,697 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,515 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,916 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,412 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,604 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,534 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,201 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,297 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,591 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,454 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,864 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,642 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,667 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,690 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,083 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,362 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,628 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,263 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,710 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 26 | #3,999 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,048 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,797 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,791 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,365 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,536 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,113 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,745 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,538 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,910 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,716 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,266 | 25.5 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,362 | 23.9 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,654 | 20.7 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,574 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,315 | 25.3 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,349 | 24.9 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,865 | 34.6 |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,313 | 25.4 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,886 | 32.8 |
| 1975 | 58 | #1,656 | 39.8 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,652 | 38.2 |
| 1973 | 66 | #1,453 | 45.3 |
| 1972 | 56 | #1,609 | 36.8 |
| 1971 | 60 | #1,586 | 36.1 |
| 1970 | 77 | #1,357 | 44.0 |
| 1969 | 65 | #1,453 | 38.5 |
| 1968 | 67 | #1,366 | 40.8 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,855 | 24.2 |
| 1966 | 56 | #1,476 | 33.1 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,306 | 15.3 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,840 | 21.6 |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,985 | 18.2 |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,759 | 21.4 |
| 1961 | 37 | #1,897 | 18.3 |
| 1960 | 45 | #1,675 | 22.3 |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,028 | 15.3 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,878 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,498 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,643 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,648 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,609 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,610 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,596 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,192 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,400 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,401 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,277 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,462 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darcey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,163 Americans recorded as Darcey, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Darcey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darcey, and how old are they?
2,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 2,163 Americans ever recorded as Darcey. The median Darcey alive today is 50 years old; half are between 36 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 1,998 people named Darcey (1,861 women and girls, 137 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,975 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 350 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 838 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 462 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 184 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 162 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Darcey?
Darcey is a less common spelling of Darcy: SSA has recorded 2,163 Darcey and 26,203 Darcy since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 43,092 babies since 1880, Darcey is the fourth most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 423 babies (2.6%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Darcey
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Darcey and names like it
- Compare Darcey and DarcyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDarcey peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darcey since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Darcey.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Darcey alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.