Darcy — #984 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Darcy

The Social Security Administration has registered 23,100 babies named Darcy between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Darcy currently holds the #984 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 681 babies received it in a single year. Darcy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,760 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Darcy performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 5,589 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Darcy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,478 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Darcy in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Darcy 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 23,100 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.