How popular is “Darcy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Darcy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Darcy” 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 “Darcy” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Darcy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Darcy” 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
1915	11	0.000006003		11	-100%
1916	5	0.000002585		5	-100%
1917	17	0.000008471	5	12	-41%
1918	7	0.000003224		7	-100%
1919	10	0.000004739		10	-100%
1920	9	0.000003978		9	-100%
1921	9	0.000003855		9	-100%
1922	13	0.000005679		13	-100%
1923	5	0.000002172		5	-100%
1924	7	0.000002939		7	-100%
1926	6	0.000002613		6	-100%
1927	22	0.000009485	5	17	-55%
1928	10	0.000004423		10	-100%
1929	18	0.000008211	5	13	-44%
1930	15	0.000006747	10	5	33%
1932	10	0.000004736		10	-100%
1933	6	0.000003001		6	-100%
1934	18	0.000008667	5	13	-44%
1935	5	0.000002392	5		100%
1936	17	0.000008183	7	10	-18%
1937	15	0.00000704	6	9	-20%
1939	11	0.000004992		11	-100%
1940	20	0.000008686	11	9	10%
1941	25	0.000010261	15	10	20%
1942	29	0.000010616	14	15	-3%
1943	33	0.000011692	21	12	27%
1944	31	0.000011524	20	11	29%
1945	34	0.000012816	25	9	47%
1946	62	0.000019403	48	14	55%
1947	83	0.000023041	64	19	54%
1948	77	0.000022303	57	20	48%
1949	110	0.000031566	87	23	58%
1950	170	0.000048525	128	42	51%
1951	230	0.000062437	194	36	69%
1952	240	0.000063191	197	43	64%
1953	281	0.000072918	242	39	72%
1954	353	0.000088678	296	57	68%
1955	368	0.000091654	297	71	61%
1956	389	0.000094348	334	55	72%
1957	365	0.00008686	290	75	59%
1958	385	0.000093132	314	71	63%
1959	475	0.000114238	413	62	74%
1960	539	0.00012976	481	58	78%
1961	651	0.000157159	584	67	79%
1962	561	0.000139021	506	55	80%
1963	594	0.000150068	524	70	76%
1964	648	0.000166684	602	46	86%
1965	606	0.000167152	544	62	80%
1966	559	0.000160833	505	54	81%
1967	622	0.000183216	560	62	80%
1968	713	0.000211046	644	69	81%
1969	707	0.000203434	639	68	81%
1970	761	0.000211007	681	80	79%
1971	712	0.000207438	648	64	82%
1972	577	0.000183583	522	55	81%
1973	536	0.000177667	483	53	80%
1974	573	0.000188487	516	57	80%
1975	518	0.000171558	473	45	83%
1976	491	0.000161817	436	55	78%
1977	470	0.000147962	424	46	80%
1978	429	0.000135166	392	37	83%
1979	446	0.000134055	411	35	84%
1980	484	0.000140514	460	24	90%
1981	418	0.000120831	390	28	87%
1982	429	0.000122293	400	29	86%
1983	390	0.000112608	361	29	85%
1984	403	0.000115514	374	29	86%
1985	316	0.000088537	294	22	86%
1986	316	0.000088837	276	40	75%
1987	233	0.000064621	204	29	75%
1988	268	0.00007253	245	23	83%
1989	301	0.000078295	275	26	83%
1990	281	0.000071095	257	24	83%
1991	274	0.000070342	259	15	89%
1992	225	0.000058574	209	16	86%
1993	231	0.000061269	215	16	86%
1994	196	0.000052721	188	8	92%
1995	169	0.000046148	155	14	83%
1996	162	0.000044418	151	11	86%
1997	168	0.000046335	154	14	83%
1998	173	0.000047034	155	18	79%
1999	155	0.000041961	145	10	87%
2000	141	0.000037303	135	6	91%
2001	175	0.000046749	169	6	93%
2002	160	0.0000428	145	15	81%
2003	149	0.000039187	142	7	91%
2004	120	0.000031406	107	13	78%
2005	129	0.000033551	120	9	86%
2006	119	0.000030079	108	11	82%
2007	137	0.00003427	128	9	87%
2008	171	0.000043504	158	13	85%
2009	140	0.000036648	129	11	84%
2010	158	0.000042752	146	12	85%
2011	159	0.000043469	144	15	81%
2012	150	0.000041013	141	9	88%
2013	171	0.000046905	157	14	84%
2014	196	0.000052882	184	12	88%
2015	179	0.000048366	167	12	87%
2016	196	0.000053425	189	7	93%
2017	196	0.000054807	183	13	87%
2018	226	0.000064279	211	15	87%
2019	231	0.000066553	220	11	90%
2020	204	0.000061067	195	9	91%
2021	236	0.000069659	219	17	86%
2022	250	0.000073896	236	14	89%
2023	265	0.000080032	248	17	87%
2024	291	0.000087427	262	29	80%

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