Yancy
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 21 babies a year in the US.
Yancy by the numbers
Yancy was given to 21 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 124 babies in 1959, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Yancy
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Yancy. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- YanniGod is gracious; a form of John27 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Yancy
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