Fannie Girl
How popular is Fannie?
#3,341 girl name in 2025
46 baby girls were named Fannie in the US in 2025, making it the 3341st most popular girl name.
Fannie popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #3,341 for girls (▲ 234 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 46 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-13% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #3,129 in 2015, #2,523 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1918 (2,014 girls) |
| Highest rank | #47 in 1881 (4 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Fannie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Fannie family of names ranked #2,067 for girls in 2025 (#1,927 the year before), with 64 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Fannie | 46 | 72% |
| Fanny | 18 | 28% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Fannie is most popular
Babies named Fannie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Pennsylvania: 0.4 per 1,000 (84 girls)
- Missouri: 0.2 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.2 per 1,000 (13 girls)
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (13 girls)
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (20 girls)
Fannie by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7,527 | #47 |
| 1890s | 9,898 | #52 |
| 1900s | 10,346 | #62 |
| 1910s | 16,633 | #78 |
| 1920s | 16,456 | #127 |
| 1930s | 9,552 | #164 |
| 1940s | 6,471 | #221 |
| 1950s | 3,670 | #336 |
| 1960s | 1,551 | #667 |
| 1970s | 869 | #1,093 |
| 1980s | 635 | #1,644 |
| 1990s | 584 | #2,007 |
| 2000s | 559 | #2,453 |
| 2010s | 496 | #2,781 |
| 2020s | 333 | #2,523 |
Girl names about as popular as Fannie
Questions
- Is Fannie a boy or girl name?
- Fannie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Fannie were girls.
- How popular is the name Fannie?
- 46 baby girls were named Fannie in the US in 2025, making it the 3341st most popular girl name.
- When was Fannie most popular?
- Fannie peaked in 1918, when 2,014 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #47, held for 4 years starting in 1881.
- How many people are named Fannie?
- 85,949 babies have been named Fannie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 14,938 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 76.
- Where is Fannie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Fannie was most common in Pennsylvania, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.