Darcey
Recorded 1947–2025 · United States
Darcey was most popular in 1970, when 83 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,112 that year. In 2025 it ranked #15,103, with 11 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,163 people named Darcey.
Darcey over time
How old is the name Darcey?
Darcey first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1947, which makes it about 78 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 79 of the 79 years since.
How many people are named Darcey?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,163 American births named Darcey between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,016 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Darcey in 2025?
11 American babies were named Darcey in 2025, ranking #15,103 that year.
Is Darcey getting more or less popular?
Darcey is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 12 births a year across 2021–2025 against 11 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Darcey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Darcey is a girl’s name — 95.7% of the 2,163 Americans given it were girls and 4.3% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Darcey?
Roughly 2,016 Americans named Darcey are alive today — 93% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 50 years old, and half are between 37 and 58.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Darcey is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org