Meaning not yet researched.
Fanny: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #183 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #183 in 1880; #6,397 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fanny in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,397 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #183.
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Fanny: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #183 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 241 (1916).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Fanny, making it the 6,397th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,196 places from #5,201 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 25 girls named Fanny in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #183, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 241, in 1916. For comparison, it was #3,228 in 2015 and #1,506 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fanny in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 67 babies with the name. In all, 9,654 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,735 babies named Fanny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 205 US girls were named Fanny; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Fannie (85,949 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fany and Fanya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Fany (102), Fanya (30).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Fanny in the open dataset we use.
Fanny is listed as a nickname for Frances.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,397 | — | — |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,201 | — | — |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,253 | — | — |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,949 | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,459 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,787 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,254 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,207 | — | — |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,362 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,769 | — | — |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,156 | — | — |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,149 | — | — |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,721 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,480 | — | — |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,634 | — | — |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,343 | — | — |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,007 | — | — |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,292 | — | — |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,748 | — | — |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,581 | — | — |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,490 | — | — |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,616 | — | — |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,822 | — | — |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,912 | — | — |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,943 | — | — |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,050 | — | — |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1992 | 76 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1990 | 68 | #1,998 | — | — |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 1988 | 60 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,245 | — | — |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,526 | — | — |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,349 | — | — |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,304 | — | — |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,596 | — | — |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,381 | — | — |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,961 | — | — |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,224 | — | — |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,177 | — | — |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,175 | — | — |
| 1957 | 32 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,786 | — | — |
| 1945 | 45 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1944 | 36 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1943 | 50 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1942 | 44 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1940 | 36 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1939 | 50 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1938 | 64 | #878 | — | — |
| 1937 | 43 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1936 | 49 | #980 | — | — |
| 1935 | 88 | #719 | — | — |
| 1934 | 91 | #702 | — | — |
| 1933 | 80 | #739 | — | — |
| 1932 | 93 | #705 | — | — |
| 1931 | 109 | #638 | — | — |
| 1930 | 124 | #624 | — | — |
| 1929 | 139 | #582 | — | — |
| 1928 | 149 | #580 | — | — |
| 1927 | 166 | #549 | — | — |
| 1926 | 163 | #555 | — | — |
| 1925 | 188 | #514 | — | — |
| 1924 | 167 | #562 | — | — |
| 1923 | 177 | #535 | — | — |
| 1922 | 194 | #499 | — | — |
| 1921 | 170 | #544 | — | — |
| 1920 | 222 | #454 | — | — |
| 1919 | 190 | #485 | — | — |
| 1918 | 202 | #470 | — | — |
| 1917 | 209 | #444 | — | — |
| 1916 | 241 | #405 | — | — |
| 1915 | 211 | #411 | — | — |
| 1914 | 167 | #409 | — | — |
| 1913 | 124 | #445 | — | — |
| 1912 | 116 | #438 | — | — |
| 1911 | 100 | #403 | — | — |
| 1910 | 102 | #391 | — | — |
| 1909 | 79 | #412 | — | — |
| 1908 | 86 | #388 | — | — |
| 1907 | 103 | #348 | — | — |
| 1906 | 71 | #405 | — | — |
| 1905 | 71 | #401 | — | — |
| 1904 | 65 | #403 | — | — |
| 1903 | 79 | #356 | — | — |
| 1902 | 68 | #383 | — | — |
| 1901 | 60 | #382 | — | — |
| 1900 | 86 | #363 | — | — |
| 1899 | 73 | #349 | — | — |
| 1898 | 78 | #352 | — | — |
| 1897 | 78 | #333 | — | — |
| 1896 | 108 | #279 | — | — |
| 1895 | 94 | #296 | — | — |
| 1894 | 90 | #290 | — | — |
| 1893 | 79 | #309 | — | — |
| 1892 | 92 | #280 | — | — |
| 1891 | 84 | #268 | — | — |
| 1890 | 84 | #272 | — | — |
| 1889 | 87 | #251 | — | — |
| 1888 | 75 | #267 | — | — |
| 1887 | 83 | #229 | — | — |
| 1886 | 81 | #224 | — | — |
| 1885 | 85 | #212 | — | — |
| 1884 | 66 | #235 | — | — |
| 1883 | 68 | #215 | — | — |
| 1882 | 49 | #248 | — | — |
| 1881 | 55 | #201 | — | — |
| 1880 | 67 | #183 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).