Yancey
Yancey is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 197148 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1894
- 1,537people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,503 boys have been named Yancey in the United States since 1894, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1971, with 48 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 48 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1970s alone account for 26%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 34 girls have also been given it, 2.2% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Yancey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 56 | |
| 1920s | 73 | |
| 1930s | 45 | |
| 1940s | 62 | |
| 1950s | 69 | |
| 1960s | 260 | |
| 1970s | 385 | |
| 1980s | 219 | |
| 1990s | 169 | |
| 2000s | 112 | |
| 2010s | 36 | |
| 2020s | 7 |
In 1971, its biggest year
Yancey was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1971 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1971.
Names that rose and fell with Yancey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Erichpeak 1971
- Lamontpeak 1972
- Edwardopeak 1970
- Reginalpeak 1970
- Roderickpeak 1971
- Charltonpeak 1971
- Cedricpeak 1982
- Durandpeak 1972
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.