Fannie
Fannie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 42 births. Its best rank was 47th, in 1881–1883, 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 420.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19182,014 births
- Best rank
- #47first in 1881
- Since 1880
- 85,511people given the name
The story in the numbers
85,511 girls have been named Fannie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 2,014 births — 0.17% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 42 births in 2024, against 2,014 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1910s alone account for 19%. It has spent 88 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 35 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Fannie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7,527 | |
| 1890s | 9,898 | |
| 1900s | 10,346 | |
| 1910s | 16,633 | |
| 1920s | 16,456 | |
| 1930s | 9,552 | |
| 1940s | 6,471 | |
| 1950s | 3,670 | |
| 1960s | 1,550 | |
| 1970s | 868 | |
| 1980s | 635 | |
| 1990s | 581 | |
| 2000s | 548 | |
| 2010s | 492 | |
| 2020s | 284 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Fannie was the 120th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Fannie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Berthapeak 1918
- Linniepeak 1921
- Nelliepeak 1918
- Mattiepeak 1920
- Lottiepeak 1916
- Addiepeak 1920
- Vinapeak 1920
- Lydapeak 1916
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.