Fani
Fani was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 64 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Fani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Fani is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Fani?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,731, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 2008, the peak
Fani peaked in 2008, when 9 girls were given it, #11,909 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #17,731 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,880 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,909 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,527 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,145 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,822 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,759 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,463 | 2.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,661 | 2.6 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,904 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 7 | #8,301 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fani, and how old are they?
An estimated 63 Americans named Fani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 587 people named Fani (563 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 63 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Fani?
Fani is a less common spelling of Fannie: SSA has recorded 64 Fani and 85,949 Fannie since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 96,110 babies since 1880, Fani is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 75 babies recorded by SSA was a Fani (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fani
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fani and names like it
- Compare Fani and FannieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sFani peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Fani.
- Names starting with FMost given first.