Yancey

13,201 people in the United States were counted with the surname Yancey in the 2020 census, making it the 2,670th most common in the country. That is about one person in 22,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,201
Rank: 2,670th
How common: 1 in 22,600
Per 100,000: 4.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 61.2%
Black, not Hispanic 30.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Yancey

Philip Yancey (born 1949)American writer
Rick Yancey (born 1962)American writer known for speculative fiction
Jimmy Yancey (1894–1951)African American boogie-woogie pianist, composer and lyricist

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

Surnames like Yancey

Also a first name

Yancey has been given to 1,537 American babies as a first name since 1894, peaking in 1971. 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.