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Nancie

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Nancie has been given to 3,296 babies in the U.S. since 1887. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1953, with 128 recorded.

Babies named Nancie, 2018

1 in 502,000

Nancie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nancie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nancie means

Nancie is a given name.

The naming story behind Nancie

Wikidata records Nancie as a given name. The entity identifier is Q91331029, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,296 girls were recorded with the name Nancie between 1887 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 128 in 1953; its best national rank was #818 in 1953.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Nancie?

Nancie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 502,000
7 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 243,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,244 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nancie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 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 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nancie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nancies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nancie was born before 1950 — so the typical Nancie is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,661
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (902).

Is Nancie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1953 (128)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#818
1953

Spellings of Nancie

Nancie is not the most common spelling — Nancy is, with 56.9% against Nancie's 0.19%.

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 Nancie is used

Across 1910–2025, Nancie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 84,262 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Oregon1 in 50,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Nancie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nancie around the world

Where Nancie 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.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #1,079
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–1994
    #4,021
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1951–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Nancie

People whose public names include Nancie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Nancie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Nancie. Linked forms have their own page here.

NanciNancy

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Nancie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#818
1953
Peak year
1953
128 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
3,296
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nancie

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

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Names with a curve like Nancie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nancie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MarilouRosannVonnieJoettaEvonPhillisEarthaThomasineErlindaGeorgeannOraliaKathern

Sibling names for Nancie

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

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