Darci
Darci was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,794 among girls’ names; 6,566 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,160 Americans named Darci and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 37 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darci by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Darci mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Darci is “a female given name, variant of Darcy.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Darci?
#4,794 among girls’ names, 2025
Darci rose from #4,885 in 2015 to #4,794 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.7 to 17.4 per million.
242 babies in 1980, the peak
Darci peaked in 1980, when 242 girls were given it, #703 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,794 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,983 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,926 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,500 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,989 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,298 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,270 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,695 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,705 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,174 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,885 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,838 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,045 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,862 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,950 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,838 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,970 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,953 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,379 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,121 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,395 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,187 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,237 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,608 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,149 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,821 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,863 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,851 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,521 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,376 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,982 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,260 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,065 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,761 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,707 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 111 | #1,423 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 126 | #1,248 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 112 | #1,292 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 99 | #1,374 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 105 | #1,286 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 141 | #1,051 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 150 | #964 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 180 | #849 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 182 | #854 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 203 | #796 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 242 | #703 | 0.15 |
| 1979 | 218 | #745 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 134 | #1,015 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 159 | #893 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 153 | #875 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 160 | #841 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 192 | #743 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 175 | #768 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 175 | #781 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 217 | #705 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 234 | #679 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 217 | #676 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 180 | #737 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 150 | #812 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 143 | #835 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 124 | #905 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 134 | #899 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 117 | #983 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 121 | #968 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 114 | #1,016 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 109 | #1,032 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 58 | #1,408 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,074 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,117 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,953 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,373 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,235 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,028 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darci a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darci has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Darci: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darci, and how old are they?
6,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 6,566 Americans ever recorded as Darci. The median Darci alive today is 47 years old; half are between 37 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 5,874 people named Darci (5,836 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,080 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 736 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,670 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,770 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 404 |
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).
Where are babies named Darci born?
The states with the most babies named Darci are California, Michigan and Iowa, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Iowa is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 617 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 297 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Iowa | 288 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Washington | 280 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Ohio | 240 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 236 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 218 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Oregon | 191 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Texas | 163 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 156 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Darci is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darci is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1950 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Darci with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 43,156 babies since 1880, Darci is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 423 babies (6.6%), the third most given that year.
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 Darci
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 Darci and names like it
- Compare Darci and DarcyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDarci peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darci since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Darci.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Darci alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.