How rare is the name Fanny?

10,752 people in the United States have the first name Fanny, about 1 in 28,091. It ranks #2,346 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

FANNY

#2,346

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,752
About
1 in 28,091
This common or more
79.5%
Who bears it

Of the 10,752 people named Fanny, 70.5% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 12.8% as White and 11.1% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Fanny peaked in 1916, when 241 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1916
Births that year
241
In 2025*
18 ▼93%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 9,654 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.

Fanny by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #414. The largest share of babies named Fanny, 39.3%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#414716
1890s#482860
1900s#610768
1910s#8001,662
1920s#9841,735
1930s#1,406791
1940s#2,381384
1950s#3,127308
1960s#3,802256
1970s#3,549373
1980s#3,677450
1990s#3,923567
2000s#6,257398
2010s#8,728264
2020s#10,192122
Before 190117.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–2739.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4513.8%
Baby boom 1946–646.1%
Generation X 1965–805.4%
Millennials 1981–968.8%
Generation Z 1997–126.3%
2013 and later3.1%

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 Fanny is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Fanny has been most common in New York (5.3×), Kentucky (2.6×), and New Jersey (1.5×), and least common in Tennessee (0.33×).

4,171 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 Fanny

#2,344 Gena · 10,754#2,344 Jarod · 10,754#2,347 Yuri · 10,734#2,348 Rosalina · 10,733

Spelled almost the same

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

#8,640 Fany · 1,670#34,642 Fanni · 235

Also a last name

As a last name, Fanny ranks #101,282 of 156,621, with 190 people. See Fanny as a last name

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