Nancye
Recorded 1912–1979 · United States
Nancye was most popular in 1944, when 36 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,338 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,031 people named Nancye.
Nancye over time
How old is the name Nancye?
Nancye first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1912, which makes it about 113 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 58 of the 114 years since. It was last recorded in 1979.
How many people are named Nancye?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,031 American births named Nancye between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 493 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Nancye in 2025?
Nancye was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Nancye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Nancye is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 1,031 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Nancye?
Roughly 493 Americans named Nancye are alive today — 48% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 76 years old, and half are between 69 and 83.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Nancye is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org