Given name
Darcia
“a dark beauty”
Darcia is a variant of Darcie. One English interpretation is “a dark beauty.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Darcia is a variant of Darcie. One English interpretation is “a dark beauty.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Darcia is a variant of Darcie. An origin associated with Darcie is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1946. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Darcia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 543
- 0 boys · 543 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 28 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1993. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 28 in 1957. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 544 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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