Yancy
Yancy is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 691st, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1959123 births
- Best rank
- #691in 1959
- Since 1886
- 2,945people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,427 boys have been named Yancy in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 123 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 123 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 1970s alone account for 23%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Yancy is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are girls (518), most of them born around 2001.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Yancy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 13 | |
| 1910s | 65 | |
| 1920s | 93 | |
| 1930s | 53 | |
| 1940s | 86 | |
| 1950s | 202 | |
| 1960s | 469 | |
| 1970s | 568 | |
| 1980s | 355 | |
| 1990s | 276 | |
| 2000s | 152 | |
| 2010s | 74 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Yancy was the 691st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Yancy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shedrickpeak 1973
- Roderickpeak 1971
- Erichpeak 1971
- Yanceypeak 1971
- Reginalpeak 1970
- Edwardopeak 1970
- Brittpeak 1960
- Clintpeak 1980
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.