Meaning not yet researched.
Yancy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #690 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #690 in 1959; #11,935 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yancy in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,935 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #690.
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Yancy: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #690 in 1959 · most boys in one year: 123 (1959).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Yancy, making it the 11,935th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #690, reached in 1959. That year also had the most boys given the name: 123. For comparison, it was #10,592 in 2015 and #2,768 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Yancy in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #5,451, reached in 1969. The most girls given the name in a single year was 21, in 2001. For comparison, it was #12,955 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yancy in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 5 babies. In all, 2,951 US babies have been given the name, 18% of them girls and 82% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 604 babies named Yancy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 36 US boys were named Yancy; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Yancey, Yanci and Yansi are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yancey (1,537), Yanci (203), Yansi (15).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Yancy in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,935 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,926 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,223 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,526 | 5 | #14,001 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,417 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,466 | — | — |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,417 | 9 | #8,786 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,322 | 9 | #8,805 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,829 | 7 | #10,691 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,955 | 7 | #10,592 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,469 | 11 | #7,534 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,164 | — | — |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,170 | 10 | #8,122 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,596 | 12 | #6,986 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,399 | 9 | #8,763 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,642 | 7 | #10,936 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,059 | 11 | #7,682 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,591 | 12 | #7,066 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,222 | 14 | #6,080 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,524 | 15 | #5,567 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,762 | 14 | #5,803 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,197 | 19 | #4,415 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,035 | 22 | #3,904 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,564 | 15 | #5,135 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,148 | 23 | #3,635 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,321 | 16 | #4,533 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,093 | 30 | #2,780 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,861 | 21 | #3,450 |
| 1996 | 16 | #6,058 | 24 | #3,105 |
| 1995 | 13 | #7,030 | 25 | #2,922 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,569 | 21 | #3,322 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,487 | 27 | #2,693 |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,060 | 42 | #1,954 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,110 | 36 | #2,093 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,231 | 34 | #2,166 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,739 | 23 | #2,778 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,377 | 31 | #2,088 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,802 | 37 | #1,792 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,513 | 37 | #1,724 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,659 | 35 | #1,762 |
| 1984 | — | — | 42 | #1,506 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,040 | 38 | #1,592 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,211 | 32 | #1,812 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,170 | 40 | #1,546 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,403 | 40 | #1,545 |
| 1979 | — | — | 40 | #1,509 |
| 1978 | — | — | 43 | #1,435 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,557 | 38 | #1,513 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,886 | 46 | #1,319 |
| 1975 | — | — | 66 | #1,018 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,769 | 61 | #1,064 |
| 1973 | — | — | 77 | #924 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,272 | 62 | #1,031 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,378 | 68 | #989 |
| 1970 | — | — | 67 | #999 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,451 | 56 | #1,041 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,239 | 43 | #1,164 |
| 1967 | — | — | 46 | #1,101 |
| 1966 | — | — | 43 | #1,148 |
| 1965 | — | — | 45 | #1,128 |
| 1964 | — | — | 42 | #1,198 |
| 1963 | — | — | 39 | #1,254 |
| 1962 | — | — | 51 | #1,081 |
| 1961 | — | — | 37 | #1,321 |
| 1960 | — | — | 67 | #926 |
| 1959 | — | — | 123 | #690 |
| 1958 | — | — | 25 | #1,592 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,937 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,199 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,941 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #3,141 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,727 |
| 1951 | — | — | 8 | #3,062 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,768 |
| 1949 | — | — | 15 | #2,021 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #4,195 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #3,094 |
| 1946 | — | — | 11 | #2,402 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,334 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,905 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,228 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,208 |
| 1941 | — | — | 11 | #2,330 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,320 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,963 |
| 1938 | — | — | 12 | #2,183 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #4,143 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,969 |
| 1933 | — | — | 11 | #2,367 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,277 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,386 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,762 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,267 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,448 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,705 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,738 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,862 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,466 |
| 1922 | — | — | 12 | #2,629 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,982 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,966 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,872 |
| 1918 | — | — | 18 | #1,904 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,977 |
| 1916 | — | — | 15 | #2,042 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,388 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,883 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,319 |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #1,047 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,238 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #920 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,110 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).