Clancy
- #8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- #3,583 for boys in 2025, 31 births
- Given to boys 70.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1955 · 20 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,425since 1914
Clancy over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | #3,583 | 31 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #3,416 | 34 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #3,740 | 29 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #4,426 | 22 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #3,781 | 28 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #4,080 | 25 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #3,456 | 31 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #4,375 | 22 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #4,326 | 20 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #3,909 | 21 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #3,640 | 22 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 | #3,017 | 26 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #4,059 | 16 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | #3,042 | 22 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #3,220 | 20 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #2,469 | 28 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | #2,865 | 22 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #2,860 | 19 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #3,339 | 14 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #2,510 | 21 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | #2,828 | 17 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | — | #3,411 | 12 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #2,669 | 17 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #3,215 | 12 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | #2,857 | 12 |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 | #2,158 | 18 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #2,279 | 17 |
| 1970 | — | #3,521 | 8 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,270 | 13 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,115 | 15 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,315 | 13 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,414 | 12 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,725 | 20 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,531 | 10 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,939 | 16 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,662 | 9 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,879 | 16 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,941 | 15 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,633 | 8 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,478 | 9 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
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| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | #3,076 | 8 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,904 | 9 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
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| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
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| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1914
The first year at least five boys were named Clancy! It came in at #2,915, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1919, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Clancy is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · boys
- Texas#2,080 · 1 in 25,007
Best ever in a state: #700 in Utah, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | #2,080 | 7 | 1 in 25,007 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Clancy
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 367 spots since 2024 (#3,216 → #3,583)
- 843 spots since 2020 (#4,426 → #3,583)
- 497 spots since 2015 (#4,080 → #3,583)
Rise & fade · boys
41 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1955 at #1,725 (20 births)
- Births halved by 1956, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 46,565
- Highest: 1 in 46,565 boys born in 2024 were named Clancy (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,099 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,725 in 1955, was only 1 in 102,994 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 15.0% of all boys named Clancy (214) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2005
- Mostly girls until 2004, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 17 | #2,915 (1914) | #3,495 |
| 1920s | 52 | #2,904 (1926) | #3,679 |
| 1930s | 16 | #3,361 (1932) | #3,680 |
| 1940s | 62 | #1,941 (1949) | #2,905 |
| 1950s | 106 | #1,725 (1955) | #2,762 |
| 1960s | 106 | #2,115 (1963) | #2,658 |
| 1970s | 135 | #2,158 (1972) | #2,900 |
| 1980s | 156 | #2,510 (1986) | #3,175 |
| 1990s | 200 | #2,469 (1991) | #3,495 |
| 2000s | 187 | #3,626 (2003) | #4,781 |
| 2010s | 214 | #3,456 (2014) | #4,663 |
| 2020s | 174 | #3,216 (2024) | #3,847 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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