girls:
560 births since 1921
#5156 (10th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1914
#3267 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1914
#5846 (24th percentile)
The name Clancy is the #5,846 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,918 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 24.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,267 (28.7% percentile) for all time with 1,358 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,156 (9.8% percentile) for all time with 560 births since 1921.
Clancy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1921 for girls). Birth data for Clancy is available in 96 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (96 years for boys and 52 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Clancy has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 73.9% of babies named Clancy were boys.
For boys, Clancy reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #882) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Clancy is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #882 (3.2% percentile) with 19 births per million.
For girls, Clancy reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #846) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Clancy ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 56.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clancy".
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