Dancy

At the 2020 census, 5,229 Americans bore the surname Dancy — 6,262nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 57,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,229
Rank: 6,262nd
How common: 1 in 57,200
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Variant spelling of Dansie.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dancy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 61.3%
White, not Hispanic 31.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Dancy

Hugh Dancy (born 1975)English actor
Jonathan Dancy (born 1946)British philosopher

People named Dancy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Dancy

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.