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Clancy
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clancy
English
Alternative forms
surname en Clancey Glancey Glancy
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of en ga Mac Fhlannchaidh descendant of a person named Red Warrior, from ga flann blood-red.
Pronunciation
en /ˈklænsi/ US
Proper noun
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en English Irish.
en 22 August 2026 Ana Faguy Lindsay Clancy suffering 'command hallucination' when she killed children, court hears https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62xpre63j2o BBC News Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mum who has been charged with murdering her three children, was suffering from a "command hallucination" at the time, a forensic psychiatrist has told the jury in her trial. 3 September 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260920103416/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62xpre63j2o 20 September 2026
en Edward Helmore; Maya Yang Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case after jury deadlocked again w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/lindsay-clancy-mistrial 2026-09-04 Prosecutors argued in opening statements that Clancy had “coldly and efficiently executed” her children, doing so with “no hesitation, with deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity and cruelty” after she “drew her husband out of the house, their father, so that she had the opportunity and the time to carry out these murders”. https://web.archive.org/web/20260905004633/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/lindsay-clancy-mistrial
en male surnames.
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Clancy is the 2871st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 12556 individuals. Clancy is most common among White (90.81%) individuals.
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