Nąncy
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nąncy is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In San Marino it is the 23rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Nancy, pet form of the female given names Agnes and Anne, under influence from earlier nan (“serving girl, maid; male homosexual”), itself from Nan, another pet form of the same names.
- ECEcuador1 in 311(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 431
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #680 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 491 (measured from records)
- 1 in 311 (inferred from the name graph)
772,570 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nancy in US United States, EC Ecuador, BR Brazil and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Nancy, pet form of the female given names Agnes and Anne, under influence from earlier nan (“serving girl, maid; male homosexual”), itself from Nan, another pet form of the same names. Compare Mary.
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nąncy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #712 | 772,570 | 1 in 431 | 772K | Nancy | 491 |
| EC Ecuador | #79 | 54,430 | 1 in 311 | 54K | Nancy | 69 |
| BR Brazil | #852 | 7,396 | 1 in 29K | 7.4K | Nancy | 134 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 4,519 | 1 in 1.1K | 4.5K | — | 82 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,206 | 1 in 16K | 3.2K | Nancy | 143 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,192 | 1 in 3.2K | 3.2K | — | 37 |
| NO Norway | — | 822 | 1 in 6.7K | 2.4K | — | 17 |
| SM San Marino | #23 | — | — | — | Nancy | 5 |
772,570 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nąncy mean, and where does it come from?
- From Nancy, pet form of the female given names Agnes and Anne, under influence from earlier nan (“serving girl, maid; male homosexual”), itself from Nan, another pet form of the same names. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
- Is Nąncy a male or female name?
- Nąncy is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Nąncy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 773 thousand people named Nąncy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nancy.
- Where is Nąncy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nąncy is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 311 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nąncy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 772,570 people named Nąncy in 2020, about 1 in 431 residents.
- How common is Nąncy compared with other names?
- In the United States, Nąncy is the 712th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C4%85ncyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nąncy” — the 712th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.