Meaning and history
From a surname, it is an Americanized form of the Dutch surname Jansen, meaning “Jan’s son.”
20062006: 14 births, rank #5,781
2007: 12 births, rank #6,622
2008: 11 births, rank #7,187
2009: 7 births, rank #9,864
2010: 9 births, rank #8,139
20112011: 12 births, rank #6,578
2012: 10 births, rank #7,559
2013: no US SSA record for this spelling
2014: 11 births, rank #7,048
2015: 7 births, rank #9,568
20162016: 7 births, rank #9,664
2017: 9 births, rank #8,140
2018: 9 births, rank #8,154
2019: no US SSA record for this spelling
2020: no US SSA record for this spelling
20212021: 5 births, rank #12,146
2022: no US SSA record for this spelling
2023: no US SSA record for this spelling
2024: no US SSA record for this spelling
20252025: 6 births, rank #10,695
Yancy rose from #989 to #924 for boys between 1971 and 1973. Its highest annual birth count came in 1959, with 123 births.