Nancylee — girls' name
387 babies named Nancylee in U.S. Social Security records since 1927, with the highest year being 1940. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
44% of everyone ever named Nancylee was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Nancylee in 1940 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nancylee
The Social Security Administration has registered 387 babies named Nancylee between 1927 and 1969, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nancylee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1969. The name reached its historical peak in 1940, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nancylee performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 172 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nancylee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nancylee in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nancylee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 387 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Nancylee at a glance
Last recorded 1969Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nancylee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1969–1927
- Peak year (1940)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1969.
387 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1940 with 25 births in a single year.
Nancylee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- 172 births that decade — 44% of Nancylee's all-time total
Nancylee decade highlights
- Peak decade 172 births
- Runner-up 133 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1940s was Nancylee's strongest decade
172 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
Nancylee by state
Where Nancylee concentrates geographically — total births since 1927
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 1.3% |
5 of 387 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1927–1969 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.