D'arcy (name)

D'arcy (or variant forms Darcy,Darci, Darcie, or Darcey), French for "From Arcy" is a surname from the village of Bois d'Arcy in Yvelines, near Paris. Becoming very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England, while more popular as a surname, it does have some popularity as a given name.^{[ citation needed ]} Derived given names include girls names like Darcene. The surname is also applied as an anglicization for the Gaelic surname Ó Dorchaidhe. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Antoine d'Arcy, (died 1517), French soldier, sieur de la Bastie
• Charles d'Arcy (1859–1938), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh
• Emma D'Arcy (born 1992), British actor
• Gordon D'Arcy (1980), Irish rugby union player
• Hugues d'Arcy (died 1352), Archbishop of Reims (1351–1352)
• James D'Arcy (born 1975), British actor
• Jim D'Arcy (born 1954), Irish politician
• Jim D'Arcy (socialist) (1919–2001), British socialist
• John Michael D'Arcy (1932–2013), American Roman Catholic bishop
• John D'Arcy (1785–1839), founder of the town of Clifden, Connemara, Ireland
• John P. D'Arcy (1957–2004), American electrical engineer and inventor
• Martin D'Arcy (1888–1976), Roman Catholic priest and philosopher
• Nick D'Arcy (born 1987), Australian swimmer
• Patrick D'Arcy (1598–1668), Irish nationalist and politician during the Irish Confederate Wars
• Ray D'Arcy (born 1964), Irish television and radio presenter
• Sarah D'Arcy (born 1991), Australian rules footballer
• Terry D'Arcy, American politician
• Tony D'Arcy (died 1940), Irish Republican Army volunteer who died on hunger strike in 1940
• William Knox D'Arcy (1849–1917), British oilman

Given name

• D'Arcy Baker (1877–1932), British businessman and racing driver
• D'Arcy Boulton (born 1946), Canadian heraldic artist and mediaeval historian
• D'Arcy Broderick, Canadian musician
• D'Arcy Carden (born 1980), American actress and comedian
• D'Arcy Corrigan (1870–1945), Irish actor and lawyer
• D'Arcy Osborne (1884–1964), British diplomat and 12th duke of Leeds
• D'Arcy McGee (1825–1868), Canadian politician
• D'Arcy Short (born 1990), Australian cricketer
• D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948), Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar, son of the English scholar of the same name
• D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (Galway) (1829–1902), English scholar
• D'arcy Wretzky (born 1968), American original bass player for the Smashing Pumpkins, often credited as simply D'arcy

Fictional characters

• D'arcy Bloom, a fictional character on Resident Alien

See also

• Darcy (surname)
• D'Orsi