How rare is the name Nanci?

6,910 people in the United States have the first name Nanci, about 1 in 43,709. It ranks #3,152 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

NANCI

#3,152

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,910
About
1 in 43,709
This common or more
81.8%
Who bears it

Of the 6,910 people named Nanci, 70.7% reported their origin as White, 24.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 1.8% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Nanci peaked in 1953, when 222 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19282022
Peak year
1953
Births that year
222
In 2022
5 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,474 babies have been given the name since 1928. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Nanci by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #1,199. The largest share of babies named Nanci, 49.2%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1920s#13,0426
1930s#3,073205
1940s#1,3951,006
1950s#1,1991,908
1960s#1,5701,302
1970s#2,541640
1980s#3,717444
1990s#4,240502
2000s#6,278396
2010s#22,32160
2020s#39,3255
Silent Generation 1928–459.7%
Baby boom 1946–6449.2%
Generation X 1965–8020.1%
Millennials 1981–9612.1%
Generation Z 1997–128.5%
2013 and later0.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Nanci is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nanci has been most common in California (3.3×), Massachusetts (2.3×), and New Jersey (1.8×), and least common in Florida (0.33×).

3,696 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Nanci

#3,150 Rivka · 6,916#3,151 Stefani · 6,915#3,153 Xuan · 6,908#3,154 Wren · 6,906

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nanci, most common first.

#40 Nancy · 772,570#6,761 Nancie · 2,335#13,462 Nance · 896#26,555 Nansi · 350#34,922 Nanc · 232

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