In 2025, 46 US girls were named Fannie, making it the 3,356th most common girls’ name of the year, up 243 places from #3,599 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 43 girls named Fannie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #47, reached in 1885. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,014, in 1918. For comparison, it was #3,149 in 2015 and #337 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fannie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 560 babies with the name. In all, 85,949 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 16,716 babies named Fannie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 550 US girls were named Fannie; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 68. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,941 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Fanny (9,654 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fannye, Fani and Fania are summarised on this page.