girls:
34 births since 1975
#5682 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1894
#3150 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1894
#6208 (20th percentile)
The name Yancey is the #6,208 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,537 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 19.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,150 (31.3% percentile) for all time with 1,503 births since 1894. For girls, it ranks #5,682 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 34 births since 1975.
Yancey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (1894 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Yancey is available in 95 out of the 127 years between 1894 and 2020 (95 years for boys and 5 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 Yancey has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Yancey reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #624) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 40 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Yancey reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #933) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yancey".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Yancey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Yancey is pronounced as YAN-see, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YUHN-see, at 9.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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