Nancee
Nancee was last recorded in 1983, when 5 babies were given it; 1,358 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nancee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nancee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,410, in 1983; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1961, the peak
Nancee peaked in 1961, when 67 girls were given it, #1,367 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 5 | #11,410 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,043 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,752 | 4.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,243 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,120 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,334 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,829 | 6.9 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,547 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,998 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,462 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 10 | #5,298 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,348 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,488 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,840 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,687 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,893 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 40 | #1,881 | 21.1 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,341 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,750 | 21.9 |
| 1961 | 67 | #1,367 | 33.2 |
| 1960 | 33 | #2,000 | 16.3 |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,179 | 13.8 |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,756 | 19.4 |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,524 | 24.5 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,820 | 17.4 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,682 | 19.4 |
| 1954 | 54 | #1,373 | 27.8 |
| 1953 | 54 | #1,328 | 28.7 |
| 1952 | 56 | #1,276 | 30.2 |
| 1951 | 45 | #1,408 | 25.0 |
| 1950 | 61 | #1,190 | 35.6 |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,481 | 22.8 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,539 | 21.8 |
| 1947 | 55 | #1,221 | 31.0 |
| 1946 | 39 | #1,410 | 24.8 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,646 | 19.9 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,898 | 15.8 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,690 | 18.6 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,178 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,683 | 19.0 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,730 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,504 | 23.7 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,740 | 19.0 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,159 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,676 | 20.2 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,706 | 20.0 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,638 | 21.1 |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,023 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,206 | 14.1 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,176 | 14.1 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,431 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,563 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,157 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,311 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nancee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nancee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nancee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nancee, and how old are they?
An estimated 930 Americans named Nancee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,215 people named Nancee (1,215 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,053 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Where are babies named Nancee born?
The states with the most babies named Nancee are Illinois, Missouri and Michigan, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 137 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Missouri | 67 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Michigan | 59 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 54 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 42 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Iowa | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Nancee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nancee is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1925 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nancee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Nancee?
Nancee is a less common spelling of Nancy: SSA has recorded 1,358 Nancee and 1,007,393 Nancy since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 1,020,950 babies since 1880, Nancee is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 265 babies recorded by SSA was a Nancee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Nancee
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 Nancee and names like it
- Compare Nancee and NancyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sNancee peaked in 1961.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nancee since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Nancee.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Nancee alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.