Nanci

Where Nanci comes from

Nanci hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1928
    First appearance
    #4,195 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1952
    Peak, #585
    220 babies named Nanci — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1953
    Nanci Parrilli born
    Argentine politician
  4. 1953
    Nanci Griffith born
    American singer-songwriter
  5. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,117.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Nanci Griffith · American singer-songwriter, 1953–2021
  • Nanci Parrilli · Argentine politician, born 1953
  • Nanci Guerrero · Argentine actress, born 1965

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.