Clancy
Recorded 1914–2025 · United States
Clancy was most popular in 2024, when 50 American babies were given the name — ranking #5,628 that year. In 2025 it ranked #6,196, with 43 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,010 people named Clancy.
Clancy over time
How old is the name Clancy?
Clancy first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1914, which makes it about 111 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 98 of the 112 years since.
How many people are named Clancy?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,010 American births named Clancy between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,792 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Clancy in 2025?
43 American babies were named Clancy in 2025, ranking #6,196 that year.
Is Clancy getting more or less popular?
Clancy is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 43 births a year, against 30 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +42% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Clancy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Clancy is a unisex name — 29.1% of the 2,010 Americans given it were girls and 70.9% were boys. It changed hands: since 2005 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 31% girls and 69% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Clancy?
Roughly 1,792 Americans named Clancy are alive today — 89% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 28 years old, and half are between 12 and 43. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org