Darcey

What Darcey means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Darcey yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #329 vs #8,860 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Darcey?

US: Steady: #8931 in 2015, #8860 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #77 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1973, when 66 girls got the name (#1450 that year). First in the US records in 1947.

How common

• About 1 in 146,115 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,933 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,556 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Darcey is #8860 in the US and #329 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Darcey were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Darcy316 US · 351 E&W
• Darci28 US · 13 E&W
• Darcee0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Darcey

Girls

• Margaret#112“pearl”^*
• Amy#257“beloved”^*
• Mary#125Same root as Miriam, possibly meaning “bitter”^*
• Victoria#54“victory”^*
• Elizabeth#17“my God is an oath”^*
• Sara#198Variant of Sarah, meaning “masters, princes”^*

For a brother

• George#126“farmer, earth worker”^*
• James#6“May He Heel”^*
• Charles#48“free man”^*
• Louis#249“loud; famous + battle”^*
• Malcolm#272Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• Walter#251“ruler + army, host”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Darcey’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.