Dacey?

[jemimafuddleduck]

After some opinions please.

We are due a little girl next month and still can't decide on names. We quite like the name Darcy - it goes with our surname and is Irish in origin which we like as my family is Irish (but we would consider non-Irish names).

My main issue with it is that we are from the South West and I worry that it will be pronounced DaRRRRRcy.

Today we saw the name Dacey which DH really likes. It's also Irish but much less common. I think I like it but there's something I'm not sure about. Will it be mistaken for Daisy? Or will people think we've misspelled Darcy?

Please let me know what you think!

I assumed you misspelt Darcey in your title tbh. Darcey is lovely, not keen on Dacey.

Never heard of it. I think most people will think you misspelled Darcy. Which is a nice name.

Darcy & Daisy are both nice, but I don’t like Dacy. If you like the sound of Dacy maybe Macie/Maisy.

Would Stacey be an option? Dacey is what my friend’s little sister called her when she couldn’t say Stacey. Macy? Lacey?

I think Dacey is too close to Daisy in all honesty...

Dacey does sound/look made up to me, sorry OP (perhaps because it sounds so much like Daisy but looks like Darcy when written). I prefer Lacey or Maisie like pp's suggested.

It's also Irish but much less common.

I'm Irish, never heard of it. What makes you think it's Irish?

(Ditto 'Darcey' btw. It is Irish, as a surname, usually D'Arcy. It's not considered an Irish first name, at all & I've never heard it used as such.)

What about Dulcie?

A dace is a species of fish. This is what comes to mind for me, followed by 'dicey' as in a bit iffy.

Bit dicey, that one.

Looks like a typo, sorry. I'd immediately assumed that was what had happened when you wrote the title of your thread.

I like DAX but maybe it’s too cryptic. I hope not.

Definitely looks like misspelt Darcy or a made-up ridiculous way or using Daisy. Both of which are lovely names!

I read Decay when I first saw it

@bettythebutterfly

What about Dulcie?

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I'm sorry op, might get flamed for saying this, but my first thought about Dacey is that it sounds like the name of an American girl living in a trailer park.
Darcy is beautiful though!

It’s not Irish, unless you’re thinking of an alternative form of the surname Deasy, and certainly not used as a first name.

Sorry OP, but I'm adding to the general consensus that it sounds made up (even if it's not) and a variation of Darcy, Maisie, Daisy, Macey. I have a niece Darcy, who is nine, and I wasn't that keen on it initially but now I love it. I don't personally know of any others either.

Thank you all so much for your input. General consensus is the same then - as I had thought.

To those who are asking about it's Irish origins, that's just what the baby book and internet tell me; I've never heard of it before now so can't say any more than that!

I keep coming back to Darcy so maybe that's the one...

Darcy is lovely. Stick with that.

@jemimafuddleduck

Thank you all so much for your input. General consensus is the same then - as I had thought.

To those who are asking about it's Irish origins, that's just what the baby book and internet tell me; I've never heard of it before now so can't say any more than that!

I keep coming back to Darcy so maybe that's the one...

Baby name books and the internet are notoriously inaccurate. If I google ‘Irish baby names’, the first site linked has the first few names (all I looked at) either mis-spelled or mispronounced, or the wrong sex, or they are not names ever used in Ireland.

I know a Dacey, and she's pronounced Dassy (rhyms with sassy) as opposed to rhymes with Stacey

My main issue with it is that we are from the South West and I worry that it will be pronounced DaRRRRRcy

I say this with kindness OP - but that is the single most ridiculous reason for not choosing a name that you love that I've ever heard.

Do also bear in mind that people with a genuine south west accent are a dying breed. I hear a lot more midlands/northern/estuary accents in my bit of Devon that I do proper bumpkin (like me).

In contrast to PP, I wouldn't choose a name if I didn't like how it was pronounced in the area I lived. Were in Yorkshire and discounted names starting in H or with a long vowel sound for this reason. I really don't think its ridiculous at all, if I was in the southwest I'd also likely avoid names with an R sound in the middle.

With regards to Dacey, I completely read it as Darcey in the heading. Not a fan. What about Casey for a similar sound? (I think its Irish in origin, though may be wrong).

Oh crikey don't go by baby books and especially internet baby name sites

They. Make.It.All.Up.

Darcey I don't love but it's ok. If pronunciation might be an issue look wider! Lots of much nicer names out there.

Dacey is just terrible and isn't even a name... much less a girls' name. It sounds like a company. Dacey's Logistics, or Dacey's Agricultural Equipment.

Just STOP and think of the explaining the child will have to do throughout life when she says her name and has to spell it. It is not an Irish name.Darcey is a lovely name, your interpretation is just silly.