Darcel
Darcel is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195471 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1950
- 1,371people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,240 girls have been named Darcel in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 71 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 71 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1950s alone account for 42%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 131 boys have also been given it, 9.6% of the total.
By decade
In 1954, its biggest year
Darcel was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1954 were Mary, Linda, Deborah, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Darcel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Roxannpeak 1955
- Patricepeak 1958
- Roxannepeak 1954
- Debroahpeak 1955
- Denicepeak 1957
- Valoriepeak 1958
- Abbepeak 1958
- Valindapeak 1954
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.