Nancy
578
Babies in 2024
-6%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 861
-12%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Nancy
Nancy is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #81 for girls born in 2024 with 578 babies registered in England & Wales.
Nancy reached its peak in 2017, when 861 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #67 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 578 represents 67% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 12,607 girls have been officially registered with the name Nancy in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 8,339 girls were registered with the name, starting from 615 in 2014 and ending at 578 in 2024.