Fanny
Fanny is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. Its best rank was 183rd, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1916241 births
- Best rank
- #183in 1880
- Since 1880
- 9,635people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,635 girls have been named Fanny in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 241 births.
The name has all but left use: 25 births in 2024, against 241 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 58 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Fanny | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 716 | |
| 1890s | 860 | |
| 1900s | 768 | |
| 1910s | 1,662 | |
| 1920s | 1,735 | |
| 1930s | 791 | |
| 1940s | 384 | |
| 1950s | 308 | |
| 1960s | 256 | |
| 1970s | 373 | |
| 1980s | 450 | |
| 1990s | 567 | |
| 2000s | 398 | |
| 2010s | 263 | |
| 2020s | 104 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Fanny was the 405th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Fanny
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jenniepeak 1917
- Edapeak 1916
- Nelliepeak 1918
- Idapeak 1918
- Addiepeak 1920
- Lydapeak 1916
- Dorapeak 1921
- Nettiepeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.