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How popular is the name Darcy?
Births per year, rank history and how many Darcies are alive today.
Darcy (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 140th in 2025 with 351 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2014, when 606 babies were given the name, the 93rd most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 158 in 2022 before climbing back to the 140th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 10,000 babies have been named Darcy in England and Wales since 1996. Darcy is one spelling of a name also recorded as D'arcy, Darcey and Darci; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Darcy you are most likely to meet is around 12 years old. Half of all Darcies born in England and Wales are between 9 and 18, and there are at least 22,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 6.7% chance that at least one of them will be called Darcy.
How many babies are named Darcy each year?
Includes all spellings: Darcy, D'arcy, Darcey, Darci. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Darcy spelling rank?
Where does the D'arcy spelling rank?
Where does the Darcey spelling rank?
Where does the Darci spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Darcy most popular?
Darcy peaked in 2015, when 1,404 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Darcy?
At least 22,000 people named Darcy in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Darcy?
Most living Darcies are between 9 and 18; the most common age is about 12.
Is Darcy becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.