Darcey
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · Last seen for boys in 1981 at #4,509
Given to girls 95.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1970 · 77 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,070since 1947
Darcey over time
Rank among girls' names. Darcey has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | — | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | — | |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 | — | |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | — | |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | — | |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 | — | |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | — | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | — | |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | — | |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | — | |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | — | |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | — | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | — | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | — | |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | — | |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | — | |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | — | |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,969 | 26 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,773 | 28 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,329 | 23 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,104 | 34 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,744 | 38 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,524 | 25 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,890 | 21 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,704 | 35 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,266 | 43 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,360 | 40 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,645 | 35 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,563 | 36 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #2,308 | 42 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,343 | 40 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #1,862 | 53 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,307 | 39 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #1,883 | 48 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,655 | 58 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,646 | 56 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,450 | 66 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,607 | 56 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #1,586 | 60 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #1,354 | 77 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #1,453 | 65 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #1,365 | 67 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #1,848 | 40 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #1,474 | 56 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,293 | 27 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1964 | #1,836 | 41 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,981 | 35 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,757 | 42 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,893 | 37 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,673 | 45 | #3,337 | 7 |
| 1959 | #2,021 | 31 | #3,619 | 6 |
| 1958 | #2,862 | 17 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #2,486 | 21 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #2,635 | 18 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #2,592 | 18 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,581 | 17 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,182 | 21 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 | — | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Darcey! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1950, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
See more about Darcey
- 4,617 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #8,860)
- 454 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #8,860)
- 71 spots since 2015 (#8,931 → #8,860)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1970 at #1,354 (77 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,094 girls born in 1973 were named Darcey (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,354 in 1970, was only 1 in 22,703 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.7% of all girls named Darcey (553) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 17 | #4,205 (1948) | #4,915 |
| 1950s | 186 | #2,021 (1959) | #2,689 |
| 1960s | 455 | #1,365 (1968) | #1,757 |
| 1970s | 553 | #1,354 (1970) | #1,769 |
| 1980s | 349 | #2,266 (1984) | #2,811 |
| 1990s | 209 | #3,523 (1990) | #5,196 |
| 2000s | 104 | #6,619 (2001) | #10,293 |
| 2010s | 125 | #6,808 (2017) | #9,062 |
| 2020s | 72 | #6,229 (2022) | #8,998 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Darcey in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 27,165 of them was named Darcey, which outranked 83.4% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,594Renata57
- #1,594Shalanda57
- #1,594Treena57
- #1,607Darcey56
- #1,607Anitra56
- #1,607Ashli56
- #1,607Felice56
- #1,627Alaina55
- #1,627Amiee55
- #1,627Andre55
Tied with 19 names at #1,607; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 324,322 of them was named Darcey, which outranked 13.3% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 765 names at #4,986; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.