Yancy — boys' name

What the Data Says About Yancy

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,427 babies named Yancy between 1886 and 2021, spanning 136 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yancy currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1959, when 123 babies received it in a single year. Yancy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 518 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yancy performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 568 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Yancy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 122 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Yancy in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yancy 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 2,427 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.