Darcy
Darcy was given to 316 girls in 2025, #857 among girls’ names; 26,203 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,600 Americans named Darcy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 33 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darcy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Darcy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Darcy is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of mostly mid-20th century and later American usage.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Originally from Bois-d’Arcy, Yvelines in Northern France. Related to archaic French ardre (“to burn, consume”).
/ˈdɑɹ.si/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Darcy?
#857 among girls’ names, 2025
Darcy rose from #1,400 in 2015 to #857 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.20 per 1,000.
761 babies in 1970, the peak
Darcy peaked in 1970, when 761 babies were given it (681 girls, #362 among girls’ names). The 341 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 316 | #857 | 25 | #4,158 |
| 2024 | 265 | #978 | 29 | #3,818 |
| 2023 | 248 | #1,021 | 17 | #5,502 |
| 2022 | 236 | #1,068 | 14 | #6,213 |
| 2021 | 219 | #1,127 | 17 | #5,382 |
| 2020 | 195 | #1,191 | 9 | #8,216 |
| 2019 | 220 | #1,111 | 11 | #7,273 |
| 2018 | 211 | #1,151 | 15 | #5,826 |
| 2017 | 183 | #1,287 | 13 | #6,390 |
| 2016 | 189 | #1,281 | 7 | #9,898 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 167 | #1,400 | 12 | #6,754 |
| 2014 | 184 | #1,294 | 12 | #6,719 |
| 2013 | 157 | #1,436 | 14 | #5,983 |
| 2012 | 141 | #1,555 | 9 | #8,299 |
| 2011 | 144 | #1,528 | 15 | #5,727 |
| 2010 | 146 | #1,531 | 12 | #6,765 |
| 2009 | 129 | #1,711 | 11 | #7,318 |
| 2008 | 158 | #1,479 | 13 | #6,470 |
| 2007 | 128 | #1,707 | 9 | #8,320 |
| 2006 | 108 | #1,881 | 11 | #7,010 |
| 2005 | 120 | #1,657 | 9 | #7,764 |
| 2004 | 107 | #1,782 | 13 | #5,878 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,396 | 7 | #8,854 |
| 2002 | 145 | #1,338 | 15 | #4,953 |
| 2001 | 169 | #1,205 | 6 | #9,514 |
| 2000 | 135 | #1,380 | 6 | #9,336 |
| 1999 | 145 | #1,274 | 10 | #6,135 |
| 1998 | 155 | #1,195 | 18 | #3,873 |
| 1997 | 154 | #1,184 | 14 | #4,490 |
| 1996 | 151 | #1,196 | 11 | #5,253 |
| 1995 | 155 | #1,129 | 14 | #4,317 |
| 1994 | 188 | #987 | 8 | #6,481 |
| 1993 | 215 | #895 | 16 | #3,853 |
| 1992 | 209 | #929 | 16 | #3,778 |
| 1991 | 259 | #789 | 15 | #3,839 |
| 1990 | 257 | #783 | 24 | #2,707 |
| 1989 | 275 | #718 | 26 | #2,485 |
| 1988 | 245 | #763 | 23 | #2,524 |
| 1987 | 204 | #847 | 29 | #2,063 |
| 1986 | 276 | #667 | 40 | #1,622 |
| 1985 | 294 | #635 | 22 | #2,368 |
| 1984 | 374 | #519 | 29 | #1,891 |
| 1983 | 361 | #524 | 29 | #1,868 |
| 1982 | 400 | #504 | 29 | #1,901 |
| 1981 | 390 | #510 | 28 | #1,955 |
| 1980 | 460 | #461 | 24 | #2,171 |
| 1979 | 410 | #493 | 35 | #1,639 |
| 1978 | 392 | #495 | 37 | #1,542 |
| 1977 | 424 | #463 | 46 | #1,338 |
| 1976 | 436 | #446 | 55 | #1,155 |
| 1975 | 473 | #424 | 45 | #1,284 |
| 1974 | 516 | #396 | 57 | #1,094 |
| 1973 | 483 | #411 | 53 | #1,126 |
| 1972 | 522 | #393 | 55 | #1,098 |
| 1971 | 648 | #366 | 64 | #1,017 |
| 1970 | 681 | #362 | 80 | #898 |
| 1969 | 639 | #365 | 68 | #924 |
| 1968 | 644 | #349 | 69 | #870 |
| 1967 | 560 | #387 | 62 | #918 |
| 1966 | 505 | #412 | 54 | #993 |
| 1965 | 544 | #399 | 62 | #937 |
| 1964 | 602 | #397 | 46 | #1,130 |
| 1963 | 524 | #424 | 70 | #892 |
| 1962 | 506 | #433 | 55 | #1,029 |
| 1961 | 584 | #402 | 67 | #933 |
| 1960 | 480 | #443 | 58 | #1,011 |
| 1959 | 414 | #477 | 62 | #977 |
| 1958 | 314 | #545 | 71 | #895 |
| 1957 | 290 | #565 | 75 | #872 |
| 1956 | 334 | #510 | 55 | #1,009 |
| 1955 | 297 | #533 | 71 | #875 |
| 1954 | 296 | #517 | 57 | #985 |
| 1953 | 242 | #560 | 39 | #1,192 |
| 1952 | 197 | #627 | 43 | #1,116 |
| 1951 | 194 | #616 | 36 | #1,222 |
| 1950 | 128 | #765 | 42 | #1,087 |
| 1949 | 87 | #957 | 23 | #1,547 |
| 1948 | 57 | #1,198 | 20 | #1,664 |
| 1947 | 64 | #1,121 | 19 | #1,746 |
| 1946 | 48 | #1,241 | 14 | #1,968 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,666 | 9 | #2,431 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,923 | 11 | #2,217 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,911 | 12 | #2,198 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,447 | 15 | #1,881 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,201 | 10 | #2,376 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,599 | 9 | #2,516 |
| 1939 | under 5 | 11 | #2,192 | |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,888 | 9 | #2,526 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,441 | 10 | #2,325 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,344 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,416 | 13 | #2,040 |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,346 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 10 | #2,498 | |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,889 | 5 | #4,115 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,718 | 13 | #2,230 |
| 1928 | under 5 | 10 | #2,697 | |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,965 | 17 | #1,972 |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #3,803 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 7 | #3,571 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,367 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 13 | #2,367 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 9 | #3,030 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 9 | #3,012 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 10 | #2,718 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 7 | #3,446 | |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,741 | 12 | #2,316 |
| 1916 | under 5 | 5 | #4,044 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 11 | #2,339 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Darcy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 26,203 Americans recorded as Darcy, 89% are girls and 11% boys. In 2025 it went to 316 girls and 25 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Darcy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darcy, and how old are they?
23,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 26,203 Americans ever recorded as Darcy. The median Darcy alive today is 50 years old; half are between 33 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 22,714 people named Darcy (20,450 women and girls, 2,264 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,802 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 95 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5,260 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,480 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,470 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,970 |
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 Darcy born?
The states with the most babies named Darcy are California, New York and Michigan, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,599 | #1,765 | 0.9× |
| New York | 1,844 | #1,345 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 1,272 | #1,100 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 1,101 | #819 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 988 | #680 | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 969 | #759 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 955 | #1,010 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 888 | #661 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 840 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Wisconsin | 695 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Darcy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Darcy is most over-represented in North Dakota: since 1915 it was given 2.8 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 Darcy 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, Darcy is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 it was given to 341 of their 423 babies (81%), again the 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 Darcy
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 Darcy and names like it
- Compare Darcy and DarciBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDarcy peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darcy since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Darcy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Darcy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Darcy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.