How rare is the name Fannie?

13,408 people in the United States have the first name Fannie, about 1 in 22,526. It ranks #2,035 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

FANNIE

#2,035

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
13,408
About
1 in 22,526
This common or more
78.2%
Who bears it

Of the 13,408 people named Fannie, 51.4% reported their origin as Black, 40.3% as White and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Fannie peaked in 1918, when 2,027 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
2,027
In 2025*
46 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 85,949 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Fannie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #69. The largest share of babies named Fannie, 46.3%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#697,546
1890s#809,919
1900s#9510,375
1910s#18116,716
1920s#25916,549
1930s#3519,640
1940s#5146,507
1950s#8453,670
1960s#1,4161,551
1970s#2,119869
1980s#2,914635
1990s#3,848584
2000s#4,986559
2010s#5,691496
2020s#5,222333
Before 190121.8%
Greatest Generation 1901–2746.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4519.1%
Baby boom 1946–648.1%
Generation X 1965–801.8%
Millennials 1981–961.1%
Generation Z 1997–121%
2013 and later0.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Fannie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Fannie has been most common in Mississippi (6.9×), Alabama (5.6×), and South Carolina (3.9×), and least common in Minnesota (0.04×).

54,574 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Fannie

#2,033 Doyle · 13,415#2,034 Kane · 13,411#2,036 Ronan · 13,407#2,037 Thea · 13,402

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Fannie, most common first.

#34,642 Fanni · 235#52,900 Fanie · 104

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