# Fanny (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/fanny/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈfæni/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Fannie |
| US babies named this | 9,654 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 9,654 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 30 | 4,721 |
| 2012 | 27 | 5,149 |
| 2013 | 17 | 7,156 |
| 2014 | 31 | 4,576 |
| 2015 | 51 | 3,228 |
| 2016 | 29 | 4,769 |
| 2017 | 19 | 6,362 |
| 2018 | 16 | 7,207 |
| 2019 | 19 | 6,254 |
| 2020 | 10 | 9,787 |
| 2021 | 23 | 5,459 |
| 2022 | 27 | 4,949 |
| 2023 | 19 | 6,253 |
| 2024 | 25 | 5,201 |
| 2025 | 18 | 6,397 |

## In other languages

- Danish: Fanny
- Finnish: Fanni
- French: Fanny
- German: Fanny
- Swedish: Fanny

## People named Fanny

- Fanny Ardant, French actress (born 1949)
- Fanny Elssler, Austrian ballerina (1810-1884)
- Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch track and field athlete (1918–2004)
- Fanny Brice, American actress, singer and comedian (1891–1951)
- Fanny Crosby, 19th century Christian hymnist
- Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer (1859–1925)
- Fanny Horn Birkeland, biathlete
- Fanny Churberg, Finnish artist (1845-1892)
- Fanny Cottençon, French actress and producer
- Fanny Fischer, German canoeist
- Fanny Stevenson, American author, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson (1840-1914)
- Fanny Imlay, Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft (1794-1816)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.