How Many People Are Named Darcel?
people named Darcel are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 285,534 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,371 babies named Darcel in Social Security records from 1950 to 2013, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
71 births
Trend
Last year given
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Darcel, 90.3% were girls and 9.7% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1950s: 94.7% of the babies were girls then and 85.6% in the 1980s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Darcel alive today is about 57 years old, and 53% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 43 and 68 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Darcel first appears in the records in 1950 and was given most often in 1954, to 71 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2013.
Babies given the name each year, 1950 to 2013
🏆 Rank History
Darcel has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,189, in 1954.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,189 (1954) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,428 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Darcel alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Darcel were born in New York than in any other state: about 89 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Darcel was given 4.4 times as often in Pennsylvania, 3.5 times in New York and 1.7 times in California.
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