Nancy

• IPA^(key): /ˈnænsi/
  • (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛənsi]
• Rhymes: -ænsi

Medieval diminutive of Ann and Agnes. Compare Betsy, Patsy.

Nancy (plural Nancys or Nancies)

1. A female given name.
   • 1792, Robert Burns, Ae Fond Kiss:

     I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy,
     Naething could resist my Nancy:
     But to see her was to love her;
     Love but her, and love forever.

   • 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 7, in Pollyanna‎^[1], L.C. Page, →OCLC:

     "And they've got lovely names, too. You'll like their names," sighed Nancy. "They're 'Algernon' and 'Florabelle' and 'Estelle'. I - I just hate Nancy!" "Oh, Nancy, what a dreadful thing to say! Why?" "Because it isn't pretty like the others. You see, I was the first baby, and mother hadn't begun ter read so many stories with the pretty names in them, then."

   • 2003, Ira Pohl, “Nested Classes”, in C# by Dissection: The Essentials of C# Programming, Boston, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 249:

     There are many Nancies and Jerries in the world. They get told apart by a further name, such as Nancy Lovelace, or Jerry Turing.

• nance, Nance
• nancyboy
• Nancy Dawson
• nonce
• nosy Nancy

Nancy (plural Nancies or Nancys)

1. Alternative letter-case form of nancy.
   • 1919 May 8, “The Waiting Airmen”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 August 2025:

     HAWKER, the Australian, who is to handle the Sopwith plane, predicts that any fast steamer out of New York will have no difficulty in beating the “Nancies” of the United States Navy.

   • 1998 April 2, John Lyttle, “By Zeus, are you ready for the golden boy - Ganymede Redux?”, in The Independent‎^[3], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 August 2025:

     Funny peculiar: Ganymede promising latitude, if not liberation. The Boy Done Good. For Nancies. He might, however, mean something vastly different for Normals, who are quietly - one could even say covertly - being invited to role model their increasing redundant selves on that darling petal Leonardo DeCaprio.^[sic]

   • 2008 January 20, Beth Willis, “Ashes to Ashes: Life after Mars”, in The Daily Telegraph‎^[4], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 March 2010:

     In Ashes to Ashes, DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister), the Neanderthal copper from 1973, has moved to London from Manchester to show the 'southern Nancys' a thing or two about policing.

   • 2025, S.E. Case, chapter 1, in Rigsby WI‎^[5], volume 1: Foothold, →ISBN, retrieved 28 August 2025, page 89:

     Get up you sad Nancies!

From French Nancy, from Medieval Latin Nanciacum, from Old High German Nanzig.

Nancy

1. A city in Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est, north-eastern France.

• Canny, canny

Borrowed from English Nancy.

• Hyphenation: Nan‧cy
• IPA^(key): /ˈnansi/ [ˈn̪an̪.s̪ɪ]

Nancy

1. a female given name from English [in turn from Ancient Greek]

Borrowed from English Nancy.

• IPA^(key): /nan.si/

Nancy f

1. a female given name from English

From the medieval name, Medieval Latin Nanciacum, from Old High German Nanzig.

• IPA^(key): /nɑ̃.si/

Nancy m

1. Nancy (a city, the prefecture of Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est, France)

• nancéien
• Nancéien, Nancéienne

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Nancy f

1. a female given name

• Néné, Nénai
• Nénotte

Borrowed from English Nancy.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈnansi/ [ˈn̪an̪.sɪ]
• Rhymes: -ansi
• Syllabification: Nan‧cy

Nancy (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜈ᜔ᜐᜒ)

1. a female given name from English