Darcy
Masculine · “from Arcy”
Darcy is given to both — 2,785 boys and 23,418 girls since 1880. See Darcy as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Darcy is a Norman surname that records an address — d'Arcy, from Arcy in Normandy, which is what the family were called when they crossed in 1066.
How old is the name Darcy?
Darcy first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Darcy alive today was born around 1969, making them about 56 years old. About 2,200 people named Darcy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Darcy most popular?
Darcy peaked in 1968, reaching #869 nationally. Today it ranks #4139, 3,270 places below that high. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From d'Arcy to Darcy
The story of Darcy
Norman families took their names from the places they held, and d'Arcy families appear in England from the conquest onward — the Darcys were substantial in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire for five centuries. Jane Austen gave the surname to a character in 1813, which is now the dominant association. Its use as a given name is mostly for women in Britain and both sexes in America.
Meaning
from Arcy
From the Norman French d'Arcy, of Arcy, a place in the Manche; the place name itself is probably from a Gallo-Roman personal name. The apostrophe was lost in English spelling over the centuries.
How the name formed
- d'Arcy
- Darcy
Related forms: d'Arcy · D'Arcy · Ó Dorchaidhe
Pronouncing Darcy
DAR-see
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation in English.
Nicknames for Darcy
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1915
- Most boys named
- 195871 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #869reached in 1968
- Change vs 2023
- +47.1%25 in 2025, from 17
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Darcy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- d'Arcy in French — same name
- D'Arcy in English — spelling variant
- Ó Dorchaidhe in Irish — related form
Darcys among us
people named Darcy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 68,323 born in 2025 was named Darcy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Foch test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Darcy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Foch climbed just as high around 1918, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Foch's path sketches the road Darcy is walking now.
Darcy sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Darcy is headed
Darcy looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 44% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Darcy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Darcy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a documented Norman family history.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Five letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- An Austen character is the overwhelming association for many readers.
- It is now given more often to girls, so assumptions may run that way.
- A separate Irish Ó Dorchaidhe anglicized as Darcy and means dark.
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Masculine · #4139 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Darcys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Darcy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Darcy in 2025?
- Darcy ranks #4139 among US boy names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Darcy?
- About 1 in every 68,323 US boys born in 2025 was named Darcy — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Darcy with classmates?
- Darcy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Darcy
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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