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Darcey

#9,000 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Darcy

Darcey has been given to 2,163 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #9,000 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 77 recorded.

Babies named Darcey, 2025

1 in 301,000

Darcey over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Darcey: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Darcy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Darcey means

Darcey is a variant of Darcy.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Darcey → Darcy → ardre. The family’s proposed meaning is “to burn”, recorded in French with the source elements bruller.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Darcy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,070 girls were recorded with the name Darcey between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 77 in 1970; its best national rank was #1,357 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,521 in 2020 to #9,000 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,083 in 2015 to #9,000 in 2025.

In the United States, 93 boys were recorded with the name Darcey between 1955 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1979; its best national rank was #3,409 in 1960.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Darcey?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,000
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Darcey sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darcey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Darceys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Darcey was born before 1976 — so the typical Darcey is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,053
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (553).

Is Darcey 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
+4,886
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−479
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+83
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.3%
Peak was 1970 (77)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,357
1970

Spellings of Darcey

Darcey is not the most common spelling — Lacey is, with 19.7% against Darcey's 0.76%.

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 Darcey is used

Across 1910–2025, Darcey was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 244,088 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Connecticut1 in 100,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 100,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7Iowa1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Darcey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Darcey around the world

Where Darcey 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #329
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2000–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2000–2024
    #253
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2001–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2002
    #2,580
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1992–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Darcey

People whose public names include Darcey, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Darcey in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Darcey. Linked forms have their own page here.

DarcyD'Arcy

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Darcey by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,000
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 479
Best rank ever
#1,357
1970
Peak year
1970
77 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,070
Count in 2025
11

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,409
1960
Peak year
1979
10 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
1981
All-time count
93
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Darcey

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DarlynDarlinDarcieDarinaDarianDaryaDariahDarienDarahDarlingDarielGraceyDarianaDareenDariyaDarielaDariceDariyahDarcelDarelyDarrylDarciDariannaDarlynn

Names with a curve like Darcey

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Darcey, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JenineSebrinaJinaJulianeMikkiChristianeDeedraDainaLarondaAndreMelyndaFelisa

Sibling names for Darcey

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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