Darcy
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Darcy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In English, recorded as from (de) Arcy, northern France, or from Irish Gaelic O Dorchaidhe ‘descendant of the dark person’.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 4.8K
- USUnited States1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 456 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
22,714 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled D'Arcy in IE Ireland.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from (de) Arcy, northern France, or from Irish Gaelic O Dorchaidhe ‘descendant of the dark person’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Darcy is read(measured from records)
Darcy is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English74%
from (de) Arcy, northern France, or from Irish Gaelic O Dorchaidhe ‘descendant of the dark person’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Surname taken as a Christian name in Ireland from the Darcy family, of French place-name origin.
as a nameIrish first names
Old French; place name, from a Norman family name.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
A Norman baronial surname from Old French.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese13%
a unisex given name of Brazilian usage, equivalent to English Darcy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Darcy in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Darcy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 22,714 | 1 in 15K | 20K | Darcy | 456 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Darcy | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 9,979 | 1 in 21K | 10K | — | 3 |
| CA Canada | #574 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | 1 | Darcy | 236 |
| AU Australia | #582 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 325 | Darcy | 176 |
| NZ New Zealand | #580 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 27 | Darcy | 77 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | D'Arcy | 99 |
22,714 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Darcy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
A branch of the Darcy family - whose surname comes either from the placename of Arcy-Ste-Restitue or that of Arcy-sur- Cure — came to Ireland in the fourteenth century, and the surname was adopted as a Christian name there.
as a nameIrish first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Darcy Hadfieldb. 1889NZNew Zealand rower (1889–1964)
- Darcy Ribeirob. 1922BRBrazilian politician and academic (1922-1997)
- Darcy Richardsonb. 1955USAmerican historian and writer
- Darcy DeMossb. 1963USAmerican actress
- Darcy LaPierb. 1965USAmerican actress
- Darcy Fehrb. 1974CACanadian actor
- D'Arcy Cardenb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and comedian
- Darcy Dolce Netob. 1981BRBrazilian footballer and manager
- Darcy Kuemperb. 1990CACanadian ice hockey goaltender
- Darcy Rose Byrnesb. 1998USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 71 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20K | #1,481 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 8.7K | #2,346 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5K | #1,716 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5K | #1,716 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #1,481 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 325 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 316 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2025 | 103 | #79 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2025 | 103 | #79 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2025 | 68 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2025 | 48 | #23 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Darcy a male or female name?
- Darcy is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Darcy mean, and where does it come from?
- from (de) Arcy, northern France, or from Irish Gaelic O Dorchaidhe ‘descendant of the dark person’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Darcy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Darcy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled darcy.
- What are other forms of the name Darcy?
- In the etymology graph, Darci, Darcie and Darcey are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Darcy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,714 people named Darcy in 2020, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Darcy compared with other names?
- In Canada, Darcy is the 574th most common given name of 188,338 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Darcy” — the 574th most common given name in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.