Clancy

#3,591 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Blood-red

Clancy has been given to 2,010 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #3,591 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 37 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.

Babies named Clancy, 2025

1 in 107,000

Clancy over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Clancy over time

In 2025, Clancy went to 28% girls and 72% boys.

19142025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Clancy: meaning, origin, and history

Blood-red

surname transfer

What Clancy means

Clancy means “blood-red”, associated with flann.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhlannchaidh (“descendant of a person named Red Warrior”), from flann (“blood-red”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Clancy (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Clancy is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Clancy comes through Irish Mac Fhlannchaidh.

Clancy is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mac Fhlannchaidh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Clancy is pronounced /ˈklænsi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,425 boys were recorded with the name Clancy between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,733 in 1955.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,444 in 2020 to #3,591 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,096 in 2015 to #3,591 in 2025.

In the United States, 585 girls were recorded with the name Clancy between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1993; its best national rank was #4,182 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,506 in 2020 to #8,474 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,082 in 2015 to #8,474 in 2025.

How common is Clancy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 107,000; 31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 55,100; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #3,591; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 74,127 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Clancy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clancy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clancys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clancy was born before 1992 — so the typical Clancy is around 33 today.

Median birth year: 1992; About 33 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 15.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 38.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 1,278; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 15.0% of all recorded uses (214).

Is Clancy rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −365; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +853; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +505; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.24×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 83.8%; Peak was 2024 (37)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,733; 1955

Spellings of Clancy

Clancy is not the most common spelling — Lance is, with 46.4% against Clancy's 0.62%.

Lance46.4%105,839
Chance23.9%54,622
Clay17.6%40,252
Lanny4.2%9,577
Lacy2.8%6,474
Nancy1.3%2,945
Yancy1.1%2,433
Clancy0.62%1,425

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Clancy is used

Across 1910–2025, Clancy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 536,259 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Texas1 in —
3Utah1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Clancy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Clancy around the world

Where Clancy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

South Australia
1953–2013
#754
in 2013

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Clancy by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #3,591
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 853
Best rank ever: #1,733; 1955
Peak year: 2024; 37 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,425
Count in 2025: 31

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #8,474
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 32
Best rank ever: #4,182; 1973
Peak year: 1993; 24 that year
First recorded: 1921
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 585
Count in 2025: 12

Names similar to Clancy

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Clarke Claire Claudius Claudio Clara Clayten Clarnce Yancy Clayson Claudia Clance Claudie Claudy Clare Chancy Claus Chauncy Claron Claudis Clayborn Claxton Claudell Claiborne Clarkson

Sibling names for Clancy

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Leonor Karleigh Keren Shoshana Nila Kamilah Kendyl Eloisa

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Tobin Henri Gray Arvin Leander Jerimiah

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