Nance

At the 2020 census, 22,809 Americans bore the surname Nance — 1,532nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 13,100.

By the numbers

People: 22,809
Rank: 1,532nd
How common: 1 in 13,100
Per 100,000: 7.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.0%
Black, not Hispanic 21.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Nance

Jack Nance (1943–1996)American actor
Larry Nance Jr. (born 1993)American basketball player
Larry Nance (born 1959)American basketball player
Ray Nance (1913–1976)American jazz musician

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

Also a first name

Nance has been given to 771 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 1947. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.