# Yancey (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/yancey/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 13,566 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,656 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 22,759 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.6% (13,226 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Yancey in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 64% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 31% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 2.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Yancey in the United States.

## People named Yancey

- Philip Yancey, American writer
- Rick Yancey, American writer known for speculative fiction
- Jimmy Yancey, African American boogie-woogie pianist, composer and lyricist (1898-1951)
- J Dilla, American record producer and rapper (1974–2006)

## Similar surnames

Yanez, Yanes, Yancy, Yang, Yanke, Young, Yeung, Youngs, Yung, Yong, Younce, Ying.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.