Fanta is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Fatoumata, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Fanta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,614 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,614 in 1977; #4,588 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fanta in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,588 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #1,614.
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Fanta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,614 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 66 (1977).
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Fanta, making it the 4,588th most common girls’ name of the year, down 444 places from #4,144 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 35 girls named Fanta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,614, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 66. For comparison, it was #5,346 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fanta in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 66 babies. In all, 1,168 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 323 babies named Fanta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 277 US girls were named Fanta; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Fatoumata (2,537 babies since 1880).
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.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Fanta in the open dataset we use.
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 | 30 | #4,588 | — | — |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,144 | — | — |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,597 | — | — |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,368 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,285 | — | — |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,156 | — | — |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,079 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,696 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,420 | — | — |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,115 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,346 | — | — |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,817 | — | — |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,803 | — | — |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,416 | — | — |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,844 | — | — |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,909 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,978 | — | — |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,210 | — | — |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,501 | — | — |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,389 | — | — |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,899 | — | — |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,203 | — | — |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,374 | — | — |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,424 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,651 | — | — |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,106 | — | — |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,739 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,205 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,428 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,927 | — | — |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,391 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,093 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,673 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,183 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,974 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,563 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,002 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,570 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,880 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,916 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,978 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,532 | — | — |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,013 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,597 | — | — |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,085 | — | — |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,813 | — | — |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 1977 | 66 | #1,614 | — | — |
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).