Yancy
Recorded 1886–2025 · United States
Yancy was most popular in 1959, when 123 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,585 that year. In 2025 it ranked #22,044, with 6 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,951 people named Yancy.
Yancy over time
How old is the name Yancy?
Yancy first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1886, which makes it about 139 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 112 of the 140 years since.
How many people are named Yancy?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,951 American births named Yancy 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 2,440 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Yancy in 2025?
6 American babies were named Yancy in 2025, ranking #22,044 that year.
Is Yancy getting more or less popular?
Yancy is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 10 births a year across 2021–2025 against 18 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
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 Yancy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Yancy is mostly a boy’s name — 17.5% of the 2,951 Americans given it were girls and 82.5% were boys. It changed hands: since 2004 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 65% girls and 35% 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 Yancy?
Roughly 2,440 Americans named Yancy are alive today — 83% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 45 years old, and half are between 29 and 56.
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.
Where Yancy is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org