Clancy
Clancy is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 31 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,474 among girls’ names and #3,591 among boys’, #6,217 among all names counting both); 2,010 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Clancy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 12 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clancy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Clancy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Clancy is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “descendant of a person named Red Warrior” (Fhlannchaidh) and “blood-red” (flann).
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhlannchaidh (“descendant of a person named Red Warrior”), from flann (“blood-red”).
/ˈklænsi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Clancy?
#3,591 among boys’ names, 2025
Clancy rose from #4,096 in 2015 to #3,591 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.0 to 18.1 per million.
50 babies in 2024, the peak
Clancy peaked in 2024, when 50 babies were given it (37 boys, #3,226 among boys’ names). The 43 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 86% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,474 | 31 | #3,591 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,056 | 37 | #3,226 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,589 | 34 | #3,430 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,352 | 21 | #4,730 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,459 | 29 | #3,750 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,506 | 22 | #4,444 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,884 | 26 | #4,021 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,297 | 20 | #4,773 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,913 | 28 | #3,787 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,493 | 15 | #5,834 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,082 | 25 | #4,096 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,187 | 31 | #3,466 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,212 | 19 | #4,828 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,455 | 17 | #5,284 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,732 | 15 | #5,713 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,929 | 18 | #5,080 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,666 | 12 | #6,873 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,133 | 21 | #4,565 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,841 | 22 | #4,397 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,666 | 22 | #4,242 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,295 | 20 | #4,342 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,472 | 10 | #7,060 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,626 | 24 | #3,639 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,972 | 21 | #3,929 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,299 | 13 | #5,425 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,305 | 22 | #3,649 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,957 | 12 | #5,359 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,619 | 26 | #3,029 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,871 | 16 | #4,084 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,122 | 15 | #4,205 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,256 | 20 | #3,321 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,290 | 19 | #3,480 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,279 | 22 | #3,057 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,201 | 20 | #3,233 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,510 | 28 | #2,474 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,184 | 22 | #2,871 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,894 | 25 | #2,546 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,464 | 19 | #2,867 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,653 | 14 | #3,361 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,694 | 21 | #2,525 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,100 | 17 | #2,848 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,336 | 15 | #2,982 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 12 | #3,438 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 11 | #3,734 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,285 | 8 | #4,584 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,310 | 14 | #3,123 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,285 | 17 | #2,687 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,067 | 12 | #3,244 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,960 | 9 | #3,894 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,658 | 10 | #3,509 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,054 | 15 | #2,654 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,058 | 17 | #2,375 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,182 | 12 | #2,882 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,568 | 18 | #2,171 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,550 | 17 | #2,297 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 8 | #3,565 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 10 | #2,896 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 11 | #2,596 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 9 | #2,807 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 7 | #3,289 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 13 | #2,285 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 10 | #2,691 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 15 | #2,125 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 10 | #2,701 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 8 | #3,140 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 13 | #2,337 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 12 | #2,435 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 6 | #3,603 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 6 | #3,629 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,592 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 20 | #1,733 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #3,912 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 10 | #2,563 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 16 | #1,951 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 9 | #2,694 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 16 | #1,892 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 15 | #1,956 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 8 | #2,817 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 5 | #3,807 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,041 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 8 | #2,668 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 5 | #3,623 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 6 | #3,199 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 9 | #2,510 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #3,760 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 6 | #3,437 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,090 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 8 | #3,119 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 6 | #3,844 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 9 | #2,951 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,307 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 6 | #3,956 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,520 | |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,249 | 5 | #4,445 |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #3,902 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,282 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,470 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 6 | #2,977 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Clancy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,010 Americans recorded as Clancy, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Clancy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clancy, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 2,010 Americans ever recorded as Clancy. The median Clancy alive today is 28 years old; half are between 12 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 1,573 people named Clancy (558 women and girls, 1,015 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,585 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 128 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 267 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 434 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 479 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,440 babies since 1880, Clancy is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 43 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Clancy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Clancy and names like it
- Compare Clancy and ClanceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sClancy peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clancy since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Clancy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Clancy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Clancy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.