Nancye
Nancye was last recorded in 1979, when 6 babies were given it; 1,031 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nancye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nancye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,780, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1944, the peak
Nancye peaked in 1944, when 36 girls were given it, #1,354 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 6 | #9,780 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,010 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,883 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,273 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,290 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,212 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,538 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,791 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 18 | #3,001 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,450 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 14 | #3,473 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,835 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,556 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,623 | 9.8 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,434 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,696 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,932 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,572 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,105 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,368 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,704 | 18.1 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,811 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,636 | 19.4 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,685 | 18.6 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,705 | 17.8 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,690 | 19.1 |
| 1944 | 36 | #1,354 | 27.1 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,883 | 15.8 |
| 1942 | 33 | #1,431 | 24.4 |
| 1941 | 30 | #1,439 | 24.8 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,287 | 29.7 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,414 | 25.5 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,630 | 20.8 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,407 | 26.3 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,339 | 28.8 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,594 | 21.9 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,433 | 25.9 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,587 | 22.8 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,930 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,724 | 19.7 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,738 | 19.5 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,272 | 13.4 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,261 | 13.9 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,488 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,831 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,357 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,112 | 15.2 |
| 1923 | 11 | #3,063 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,566 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,332 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,054 | 15.9 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,390 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,178 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,986 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,683 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,492 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,550 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,300 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nancye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nancye has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nancye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nancye, and how old are they?
An estimated 468 Americans named Nancye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 69 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 570 people named Nancye (570 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 588 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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 Nancye born?
The states with the most babies named Nancye are Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Virginia and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 224 | not ranked | 8.9× |
| Virginia | 54 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Tennessee | 48 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Nancye is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nancye is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1912 it was given 8.9 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 Nancye with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 1,020,950 babies since 1880, Nancye is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 265 babies recorded by SSA was a Nancye (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 Nancye
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 Nancye and names like it
- Compare Nancye and NancyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sNancye peaked in 1944.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nancye since 1910.
- The top names of 1944The year the most babies were named Nancye.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Nancye alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.