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Darci

#4,794 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to burn, through Darcy

Darci has been given to 6,566 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #4,794 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 242 recorded.

Babies named Darci, 2025

1 in 118,000

Darci over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Darci: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to burn, through Darcy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Darci means

Darci belongs to the name family reached through Darci → Darcy → ardre. Its meaning is “to burn”.

Origin, language, and formation

Darci is used in English and Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Darcy and ardre.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Darci is pronounced /daʁˈsi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,566 girls were recorded with the name Darci between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 242 in 1980; its best national rank was #676 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,298 in 2020 to #4,794 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,885 in 2015 to #4,794 in 2025.

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 Darci?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 57,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,794
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Darci 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Darci. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Darcis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Darci was born before 1978 — so the typical Darci is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,566
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (1,817).

Is Darci 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
−811
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,496
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+91
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.6%
Peak was 1980 (242)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#676
1969

Spellings of Darci

Darci is not the most common spelling — Marcia is, with 23.5% against Darci's 1.2%.

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 Darci is used

Across 1910–2025, Darci was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 33,011 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 7,143
  2. 2Oregon1 in 7,143
  3. 3South Dakota1 in 7,692
  4. 4Washington1 in 9,091
  5. 5Utah1 in 11,111
  6. 6Kansas1 in 14,286
  7. 7Montana1 in 14,286
  8. 8Idaho1 in 20,000

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. Darci has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Darci around the world

Where Darci 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
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2005–2024
    #407
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2007–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #2,941
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1991–2013
    #536
    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 Darci

People whose public names include Darci, 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.

Darci in other languages

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

DarcyDarciaDarcieDarcD'Arcy

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

Darci by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,794
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,496
Best rank ever
#676
1969
Peak year
1980
242 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,566
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Darci

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

DarbyDariaDarianDarcieDarcyDaraDaryaDarylDarleenDarahDarlaDarceyDarlynDarianaMarciDarlinDarinaDariDarlineMerciDarynDariahDarienDarling

Names with a curve like Darci

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

JeanaJeannaAdrianeKandiCorinnaRichelleBrigetteFawnDanelleKeliKelleeCandi

Sibling names for Darci

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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