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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Nance

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

761

peak year 1947

More common than

87%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1947
32 births
Best rank
#1,617
in 1932
First recorded
1913
#2,729 that year
Last recorded
1973
no later published record
Average birth year
1945
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
53 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 194732#1,713Peak
  2. 195431#1,904
  3. 194629#1,671
  4. 195029#1,786
  5. 194924#1,999

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,617 in 1932 · peak births 32 in 1947

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 1% boys■ 99% girls

10 boys · 761 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Nance has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.