Nanci

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/nansi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nanci is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 8.6K
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 11K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

14,630 people, 2022

Sources
200 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nanci 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.

Where Nanci is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—14,6301 in 14K19KNanci102
AR Argentina#657≈8,100 est.≈1 in 5.6K7Nanci60
US United States—6,9101 in 48K6.9KNanci200
PE Peru—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 14K—Nanci32
CO Colombia—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 21K—Nanci38
EC Ecuador#7811,9581 in 8.6K2KNanci18
PY Paraguay#757≈680 est.≈1 in 11K—Nanci11
SV El Salvador#914≈610 est.≈1 in 11K—Nanci12

14,630 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nanci is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Swedish

    Also written Näncì

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Nânci, Nancí

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Nancí

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Peru, Canada

    Also written Nânci

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

195019601970Nanci Griffith, b. 1953Nanci Parrilli, b. 1953Nanci Adler, b. 1963Nanci Guerrero, b. 1965

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Nanci,Hi Nanci, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 36 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Nanci
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—19K#1,450
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—19K#611
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202215K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)201015K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)200015K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—15K#1,309
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)199014K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)198013K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)197011K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.9K#3,152
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19606.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)19604.5K—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Nanci have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Nanci, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nanci.
How do you pronounce Nanci?
A machine transcription gives /nansi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Nanci a male or female name?
Nanci is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Nanci?
In the etymology graph, Nancy, Anna and Anita are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Nanci?
In Brazil, the national register counted 14,630 people named Nanci in 2022, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
How common is Nanci compared with other names?
In Argentina, Nanci is the 657th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Nanci” — the 657th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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