How Many People Are Named Fannie?

13,936

people named Fannie are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 24,525 people in the US has this name

Based on 85,949 babies named Fannie in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,996

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,087

See the top 100

Peak Year

1918

2,027 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: FAN-ee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of FANNY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Fannie in English. Counting Fannie and these spellings together, about 16,961 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.8%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Fannie (99.8%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Fannie alive today is about 66 years old, and 73% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 57 and 83 in 2025.

Under 30 1,600
11.5%
30 to 59 2,185
15.7%
60 and over 10,152
72.8%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Fannie first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1918, to 2,027 babies. In 2025, 46 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Fannie never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #47, in 1881 to 1883 and 1885, and it was in the top 100 for 35 years, 1880 to 1914. In 2025 it ranked #3,355.

Girls
Rank in 2025#3,355
Best rank#47 (1881 to 1883 and 1885)
Years in the top 10035 (1880 to 1914)
Rank in its biggest decade#104 in the 1910s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Fannie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Fannie were born in Pennsylvania than in any other state: about 1,289 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Fannie was given 4.5 times as often in Mississippi, 3.9 times in Alabama and 3.5 times in Georgia.

Pennsylvania 1,289
Mississippi 1,261
Alabama 1,200
Georgia 1,059
North Carolina 909
Ohio 783
South Carolina 653
Texas 599
Louisiana 548
Tennessee 483
Virginia 478
New York 370
Arkansas 354
Kentucky 329
Florida 290
Illinois 230
Missouri 203
Indiana 145
Oklahoma 78
New Mexico 73
Maryland 70
Michigan 70
Wisconsin 67
West Virginia 66
California 65
Arizona 50
New Jersey 21
District of Columbia 16
Iowa 7
Kansas 6
Minnesota 5
Alaska 4
Massachusetts 3
Connecticut 2

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