Nancye
Nancye is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194436 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1912
- 1,031people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,031 girls have been named Nancye in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1944, with 36 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 36 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1940s alone account for 28%.
By decade
In 1944, its biggest year
Nancye was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1944 were Mary, Barbara, Linda, Patricia and Carol. See all of 1944.
Names that rose and fell with Nancye
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Earlenepeak 1947
- Georgenepeak 1947
- Maxcinepeak 1940
- Delorispeak 1947
- Raymapeak 1947
- Donnispeak 1948
- Earnestinepeak 1944
- Merlenepeak 1940
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.