Yancy

Where Yancy comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Yancy.

  • Vowel-ended
Yancy through the years
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #959 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Peak, #686
    123 babies named Yancy, the most in any year.
  3. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,303.
  4. 1970
    Yancy Butler born
    American television and film actress
  5. 1989
    Yancy Gates born
    American basketball player
  6. 2025
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Yancy Butler · American television and film actress, born 1970
  • Yancy Gates · American basketball player, born 1989

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.