Is Darcy a male or female name?
Darcy is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 89% and male usage in Canada at 72%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 88%
- Sample size
- 41,878
- Confidence
- high
Darcy by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 89% | 25,857 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | female | 94% | 13,197 | ons |
| Canada CA | male | 72% | 2,022 | statcan |
| Ireland IE | female | 92% | 548 | cso |
| France FR | female | 68% | 185 | insee |
| Switzerland CH | male | 62% | 39 | bfs |
| Poland PL | female | 52% | 27 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 3 | statat |
Attested in 12 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · PL · SE · US
Darcy over time
In the United States, 71.8% of the babies named Darcy in the 1940s were girls, against 93.1% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 72% | 504 |
| 1950s | 83% | 3,255 |
| 1960s | 90% | 6,201 |
| 1970s | 90% | 5,514 |
| 1980s | 92% | 3,559 |
| 1990s | 93% | 2,034 |
| 2000s | 93% | 1,441 |
| 2010s | 94% | 1,858 |
| 2020s | 93% | 1,245 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Darcy with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Darcy&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Darcy
Is Darcy a male or female name?
Darcy is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 89% and male usage in Canada at 72%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Darcy change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Darcy identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.