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    The surname Yancey

    A surname, carried by 13,566 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex Y520

    Yancey: #2,656 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Yancey #2,656, 13,566 people Yancey: #2,656 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Yancey #2,656, 13,566 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yancey is more common than 98.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 13,566 people named Yancey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 22,759 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 13,226.

    #2,656
    rank among US surnames
    13,566
    people in 2010
    4.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #2,503)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,648Braden13,60322,697
    #2,650Crouse13,59822,705
    #2,651Dowd13,59022,719
    #2,652Suggs13,58522,727
    #2,653Pickering13,58222,732
    #2,654Adam13,57422,745
    #2,655Cheney13,57322,747

    Who is named Yancey

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    64% of people named Yancey identified as white (not Hispanic), 31% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

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

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Yanceys

    4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Philip Yancey
      American writer, born 1949
    • Rick Yancey
      American writer known for speculative fiction, born 1962
    • Jimmy Yancey
      African American boogie-woogie pianist, composer and lyricist (1898-1951)
    • J Dilla
      American record producer and rapper (1974–2006)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Yancey

    Yancey has the Soundex code Y520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y520.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Yancey?
    13,566 people in the United States had the surname Yancey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,759 Americans. It ranked 2,656th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Yancey?
    In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Yancey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 31% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Yancey?
    Philip Yancey, American writer, followed by Rick Yancey.
    Where is the surname Yancey most common?
    Wikidata records people named Yancey in the United States.
    Is the surname Yancey getting more or less common?
    More common. 13,226 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,566 in 2010, up 2.6%.