girls:
1.3k births since 1947
#4392 (23rd percentile)
boys:
13 births since 1983
#4573 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1947
#6397 (17th percentile)
The name Darice is the #6,397 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,346 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 17.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,392 (23.1% percentile) for all time with 1,333 births since 1947. For boys, it ranks #4,573 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 1983.
Darice first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (1947 for girls and 1983 for boys). Birth data for Darice is available in 55 out of the 77 years between 1947 and 2023 (55 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Darice has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Darice reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #681) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 29 births per million (ranked 5.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Darice ranks #918 for girls (3.1% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 67.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Darice reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #774) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Darice".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Darice. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.8% confident that Darice is pronounced as duh-REES, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is der-EES, at 19.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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