# Nannie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nannie/  
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 | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 25,580 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 20 / 25,560 (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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 20 | 3,075 |
| 1970 | 10 | 5,300 |
| 1971 | 10 | 5,389 |
| 1972 | 12 | 4,704 |
| 1973 | 8 | 6,472 |
| 1974 | 10 | 5,632 |
| 1975 | 8 | 6,919 |
| 1976 | 9 | 6,413 |
| 1977 | 6 | 9,244 |
| 1978 | 11 | 5,841 |
| 1979 | 9 | 7,115 |
| 1981 | 6 | 9,955 |
| 1986 | 5 | 12,182 |
| 1988 | 5 | 13,201 |
| 1991 | 6 | 12,585 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 5 | 4,216 |
| 1918 | 5 | 4,608 |
| 1921 | 5 | 4,778 |
| 1925 | 5 | 4,697 |

## People named Nannie

- Nannie Doss, American serial killer (1905–1965)
- Nannie Helen Burroughs, American activist (1879–1961)

## 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.