Darcy
Darcy is a girl's name that peaked in 1970, when it was the 362nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 857th. About 24,000 Darcys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 49.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Darcy boys named Darcy
Girls and boys called Darcy
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 23,418 girls and 2,785 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 316 to 25.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 85 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 26,203
- Estimated living today
- 24,000
- Median age today
- 49
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 362nd
- Rank in 2025
- 857th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 23,418 / 2,785
How old the living Darcys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 26,203 babies given the name since 1915, about 24,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 3,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1976 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Originally from Bois-d'Arcy, Yvelines in Northern France. Related to archaic French ardre (“to burn, consume”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Darcys
- Darcy Rose Byrnes (born 1998)American actress
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948)Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar (*1860 – †1948)
- D'arcy Wretzky (born 1968)American bassist
- Darcy Kuemper (born 1990)Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- D'Arcy Carden (born 1980)American actress and comedian
- James Darcy Freeman (1907–1991)Catholic cardinal
- Darcy Hadfield (1889–1964)New Zealand rower
- Darcy Marquardt (born 1979)Canadian rower
People named Darcy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Darcy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Darcy is most concentrated in North Dakota (4.4×), Montana (4.1×), South Dakota (3.3×), Maine (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular girls’ names the year Darcy peaked:
Darcy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Darcy +1 spelling | 10,867 | 89th |
| Scotland girls | Darcy +1 spelling | 984 | 72nd |
| England and Wales boys | Darcy +1 spelling | 774 | 650th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Darcy | 542 | 61st |
| Ireland girls | Darcy | 505 | 137th |
| France girls | Darcy | 125 | 3,277th |
| France boys | Darcy | 60 | 4,142nd |
| Ireland boys | Darcy | 43 | 540th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Darcy | 15 | 255th |
| Scotland boys | Darcy | 15 | 432nd |
| Belgium girls | Darcy | 5 | 1,101st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Darcy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Darcy | 6 | 7 |
| Finland boys | Darcy | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Darcy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.