JAUNCEY exact spelling in England & Wales 1881 census found by FindmyPast: 172 or Ancestry: 198
Approximate 1881 total including main variants according to FamilySearch data: 207
Births per variant (raw data) registered in England & Wales 1837-1990
JaunceyVariantsBirths1837-1990
| Jancey | Jancie | Jancy | Janncey | Jauncey | Jauncy | Johncey | Joncey | Johnsey, Johnsy, Jonsey | Grand Total 1837-1990 | |
| Total per name 1837-1990 | 283 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 974 | 7 | 74 | 2 | 333 | 1683 |
| Average per year (if >=1) | 2 | – | – | – | 6 | – | 1 | – | 5 | 11 |
Results from FreeBMD https://www.freebmd.org.uk/
Those with fewer than 10 births in total over the range of years captured seem likely to be deviant spellings rather than true variants, and indeed the instances indexed as JANNCEY found in various documents often turned out to be JAUNCEY when the original was scrutinised.
When I first compiled this table, I had not included names with ‘s’ instead of ‘c’, e.g. JOHNSEY or JANSEY, but the Oxford Dictionary of Names (Hanks et al, 2016) cites JOHNSEY as a variant of JAUNCEY, whilst none of the other spellings are listed. I have work to do on this, but have now added JOHNSEY. No births for JANSEY are indexed.
Prevalence of ‘Jauncey’ (exact spelling) surname in UK (England and Wales) Census data and 1939 Register
| 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1939 Register (excl. Redactions) |
| 112 | 129 | 140 | 145 | 172 (FMP), 198 (Ancestry) | 299 | 335 | 469 | 302 | 280 |