Fancy
Fancy reached its high-water mark in 1991 at number 3,097, and has been recorded 573 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 560 Fancys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Fancy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 573
- Estimated living today
- 560
- Median age today
- 25
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 3,097th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,860th
- First recorded
- 1952
How old the living Fancys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 573 babies given the name since 1952, about 560 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Fancys
- Fancy (born 1946)German singer
People named Fancy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Fancy is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular girls’ names the year Fancy peaked:
Related names
Fancy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.