Darcel
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Darcel has been given to 1,371 babies in the U.S. since 1950. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1954, with 71 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Darcel, 1996
1 in 729,000
Darcel over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Darcel over time
In 2013, Darcel went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Darcel?
Darcel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 729,000
- 5 of 3,646,048 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Darcel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darcel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Darcels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Darcel was born before 1962 — so the typical Darcel is around 63 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 41.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,240
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (516).
Is Darcel rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1954 (71)
- Years since peak
- 71
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.8% average annual change
Spellings of Darcel
Darcel is not the most common spelling — Ariel is, with 43.6% against Darcel's 0.69%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Darcel is used
Across 1910–2025, Darcel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 210,318 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 100,000
- 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5Louisiana1 in —
- 6Maryland1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Darcel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Darcel around the world
Where Darcel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1984–1984#661in 1984
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Darcel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Darcel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Darcel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.