How popular is the baby name Darcey in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Darcey.
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According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), the most popular baby names in England and Wales last year were againOlivia and Oliver.
Here are the top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2018:
Girl Names
Olivia, 4,598 baby girls
Amelia, 3,941
Ava, 3,110
Isla, 3,046
Emily, 2,676
Mia, 2,490
Isabella, 2,369
Sophia, 2,344
Ella, 2,326
Grace, 2,301
Boy Names
Oliver, 5,390 baby boys
George, 4,960
Harry, 4,512
Noah, 4,107
Jack, 3,988
Leo, 3,721
Arthur, 3,644
Muhammad, 3,507
Oscar, 3,459
Charlie, 3,365
In the girls’ top ten, Sophia and Grace replaced Poppy (now in 11th place) and Lily (now 13th).
In the boys’ top ten, Arthur replaced Jacob (now 11th).
In the girls’ top 100, Ada, Delilah, Ayla, Zoe, Margot and Felicity replaced Darcey, Darcy, Julia, Leah, Megan and Victoria.
In the boys’ top 100, Grayson, Jasper, Rowan, Tobias, Sonny and Dominic replaced Austin, Ibrahim, Lewis, Nathan and Tyler.
And, finally, here’s an interesting fact: “Less than half (45%) of babies had a name within the top 100 lists in 2018, down from two thirds (67%) in 1996.”
Here are five names from the list that made me curious enough to do some digging…
Darcy
Darcy just keeps rising, doesn’t it? Wonder how high it will go. Two variants of the name are now in the top 100, and a third is just three spots away:
Darcey (651 baby girls) – ranks 84th
Darcy (588) – ranks 93rd
Darcie (540) – ranks 103rd
Lower down on the list there are 22 more variants (I’m including compound names here):
In total, 1,989 baby girls share these 25 versions of Darcy. If we could rank the entire group, it would fall between #24 Phoebe and #25 Millie on the 2013 list.
As Lou of Mer de Noms noted in a post about female names on the rise, dancer Darcey Bussell became a judge on the TV show Strictly Come Dancing in 2012. This explains why Darcey overtook the more traditional spelling Darcy that year.
And the name is still being used for boys, at least for now. Last year, more than 2 dozen baby boys were named Darcy.
Iyla
The 5th most popular girl name in England and Wales right now is Isla, which is pronounced EYE-la. The –s– is silent, the same way the –s– is silent in the word “isle.”
But more and more parents are opting to simplify the name by respelling it Iyla. Watch how the number of baby girls named Iyla has been rising in the shadow of skyrocketing Isla:
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Isla
964
1,599
1,908
2,384
2,849
3,501
3,526
Iyla
9
22
33
46
72
118
137
I doubt Iyla will ever overtake the traditional version of the name, but you never know, alternative spellings sometimes catch on. Darcey is now ahead of Darcy, after all, and Zoey has been more popular than Zoe here in the U.S. since 2011.
Manahil
Last year, two variants of this name entered the girls’ top 1,000 for the first time:
Manahil (52 baby girls) – ranks 750th
Minahil (47) – ranks 813th
Menahil (4)
And I found a fourth variant, Minaahil, on the list from 2012.
Manahil is an Arabic name that means “springs, fountains.” It’s the plural form of the word Manhal.
Ruzgar
Ruzgar, given to 20 baby boys last year, comes from the Turkish word rüzgâr, meaning “wind.” You can hear the proper pronunciation of Rüzgâr at Forvo.
Tulisa
Usage of the name Tulisa plummeted last year, but that’s only part of the story. The name also increased in popularity markedly from 2009 to 2012:
2013: 33 baby girls named Tulisa [out of the top 1,000 again]
2012: 126 baby girls named Tulisa [ranked 375th]
2011: 86 baby girls named Tulisa [ranked 494th]
2010: 34 baby girls named Tulisa [ranked 988th]
2009: 6 baby girls named Tulisa [debut]
2008: unlisted
What accounts for the steep rise and the even steeper drop?
English singer and television personality Tulisa (born Tula Paulinea Contostavlos). She became famous as a member of the hip hop group N-Dubz (2000-2011) and was a judge on the TV show The X Factor (2011-2012).
But 2013 was not a good year for Tulisa. First, she left television. Second, she was arrested on drug charges. These two things were enough to knock the baby name Tulisa out of the top 1,000.
Though the stage name is pronounced tu-lee-sa, her name was originally pronounced tu-litz-a and was used to distinguish her from her grandmother (and namesake) Tula. The Greek name Tula/Toula is a short form of any Greek feminine name ending with the diminutive –toula such as Aretoula, Fotoula, Kostoula, Kritoula, Margaritoula, Panagiotoula or Stamatoula.
…More?
Have you had a chance to scan the list? Which of the baby names there made you curious?
Sources:
Gandhi, Maneka, and Ozair Husain. The Complete Book of Muslim and Parsi Names. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2004.
Smith, Sean. Tulisa. London: Simon & Schuster UK, 2012.
The most popular baby names in England and Wales were announced last week.
According to the Office for National Statistics, the region’s top names were Harry for boys and Amelia for girls.
Here are the top 20 girl names and top 20 boy names of 2012:
Top Girl Names
Top Boy Names
1. Amelia 2. Olivia 3. Jessica 4. Emily 5. Lily 6. Ava 7. Mia 8. Isla 9. Sophie 10. Isabella 11. Evie 12. Ruby 13. Poppy 14. Grace 15. Sophia 16. Chloe 17. Isabelle 18. Ella 19. Freya 20. Charlotte
1. Harry 2. Oliver 3. Jack 4. Charlie 5. Jacob 6. Thomas 7. Alfie 8. Riley 9. William 10. James 11. Joshua 12. George 13. Ethan 14. Noah 15. Samuel 16. Daniel 17. Oscar 18. Max 19. Muhammad 20. Leo
The England-only top 20 included all of the above except for Archie (not Leo) on the boys’ side.
The Wales-only top 20 included Dylan, Mason, Logan, Tyler and Isaac (not Samuel, Daniel, Oscar, Max or Muhammad) for boys and Seren, Megan, Ffion and Layla (not Isla, Chloe, Freya or Charlotte) for girls.
Newbies to the England and Wales top 100 are…
Hugo, Sonny, Seth, Elliott, Theodore, Rory and Ellis for boys. (Out are Joel, Hayden, John, Ashton, Jackson, Ben and Reece.)
Mollie, Ivy, Darcey, Tilly, Sara and Violet for girls. (Out are Lexie, Lauren, Rebecca, Tia, Nicola and Kayla.)
Here’s a selection of names from the other end of the list (each given to 10 babies or fewer):
Looking for a set of baby names with something in common? If so, here are some 6-letter anagram names for you to check out!
Anagrams are words that contain the same set of letters, but not in the same sequence. For instance, the words “listen,” “silent,” and “tinsel” are all anagrams of one another.
Anagram names can be a neat option for siblings — particularly multiples (like twins and triplets). They’re also a clever way to connect a baby name to the name of an older relative (e.g., grandpa Weston, grandson Townes).
Below are hundreds of six-letter names (collected from the SSA’s huge database of U.S. baby names) that happen to be anagrams of other names.
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