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How popular is “Darcel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Darcel” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Darcel” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Darcel” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Darcel” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Darcel” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Darcel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Darcel” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1950 21 0.000005994 21 100%
1951 32 0.000008687 32 100%
1952 67 0.000017641 61 6 82%
1953 54 0.000014013 49 5 81%
1954 71 0.000017836 71 100%
1955 65 0.000016189 59 6 82%
1956 53 0.000012855 53 100%
1957 59 0.00001404 54 5 83%
1958 67 0.000016207 60 7 79%
1959 56 0.000013468 56 100%
1960 43 0.000010352 43 100%
1961 38 0.000009174 38 100%
1962 47 0.000011647 47 100%
1963 48 0.000012127 48 100%
1964 28 0.000007202 28 100%
1965 26 0.000007172 26 100%
1966 29 0.000008344 29 100%
1967 16 0.000004713 16 100%
1968 26 0.000007696 26 100%
1969 27 0.000007769 27 100%
1970 29 0.000008041 29 100%
1971 27 0.000007866 27 100%
1972 19 0.000006045 19 100%
1973 13 0.000004309 13 100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 -100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 100%
1976 16 0.000005273 7 9 -13%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 100%
1979 15 0.000004509 9 6 20%
1980 12 0.000003484 7 5 17%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 100%
1983 42 0.000012127 36 6 71%
1984 65 0.000018631 58 7 78%
1985 33 0.000009246 33 100%
1986 39 0.000010964 39 100%
1987 17 0.000004715 12 5 41%
1988 21 0.000005683 12 9 14%
1989 17 0.000004422 11 6 29%
1990 23 0.000005819 13 10 13%
1991 13 0.000003337 8 5 23%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
1995 13 0.00000355 8 5 23%
1996 10 0.000002742 5 5 0%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 -100%

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