Darice
Darice was last recorded in 2023, when 34 babies were given it; 1,346 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Darice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 46 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Darice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Darice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,210, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1955, the peak
Darice peaked in 1955, when 52 girls were given it, #1,386 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 34 | #4,210 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,876 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,372 | 2.7 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,578 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,689 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,838 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,230 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,726 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,256 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,220 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 9 | #8,755 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,198 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,707 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,883 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,505 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,237 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,124 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,941 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,529 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,050 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,033 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,526 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,087 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,696 | 20.2 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,292 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,025 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,627 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,035 | 27.9 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,182 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,064 | 25.0 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,074 | 24.0 |
| 1970 | 52 | #1,740 | 29.7 |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,734 | 29.0 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,653 | 29.9 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,086 | 19.4 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,063 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,755 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,926 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,556 | 11.9 |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,367 | 13.2 |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,042 | 16.3 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,255 | 13.4 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,923 | 16.8 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,740 | 19.4 |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,874 | 16.6 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,741 | 18.4 |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,386 | 26.6 |
| 1954 | 47 | #1,468 | 24.2 |
| 1953 | 49 | #1,391 | 26.0 |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,616 | 19.4 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,407 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,064 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,644 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,949 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,858 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Darice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Darice has been given almost only to girls: 13 boys in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Darice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Darice, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 1,346 Americans ever recorded as Darice. The median Darice alive today is 56 years old; half are between 46 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 1,186 people named Darice (1,134 women and girls, 52 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 418 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 492 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 226 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 18 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 39 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,706 babies since 1880, Darice is the fifth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 423 babies recorded by SSA was a Darice (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Darice
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 Darice and names like it
- Compare Darice and DarcyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDarice peaked in 1955.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Darice since 1910.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Darice.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Darice alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.