Entry № 7188 · English origin

Nancy Nancy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAN-see /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Grace (peaked #6 in 1955; Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Drew)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "grace (peaked #6 in 1955; nancy pelosi, nancy drew)".

Nancy was originally a medieval pet form of Ann — from the Hebrew Hannah ("grace").

Grace. Nancy Pelosi was the first woman to wield the Speaker's gavel; Nancy Drew shaped American girlhood.

The name in its native script.

Nancy
Transliteration
Nancy
Pronunciation
/ ˈnæn.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nancy stands.

Nancy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nancys before her.

Real people
Nancy Pelosi
First woman US House Speaker.
born 1940
Nancy Reagan
US First Lady.
1921 – 2016
Nancy Wake
WWII Resistance heroine.
1912 – 2011
In fiction
Nancy Drew
Teenage detective series.
1930

Names connected to Nancy.

The number behind Nancy.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nancy reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.