Fannie
Fannie was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,355 among girls’ names; 85,949 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,400 Americans named Fannie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 56 and 83.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fannie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Fannie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Fannie is “a diminutive of Frances, also used as a formal female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Fannie?
#3,355 among girls’ names, 2025
Fannie fell from #3,149 in 2015 to #3,355 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.7 to 28.6 per million.
2,027 babies in 1918, the peak
Fannie peaked in 1918, when 2,027 babies were given it (2,014 girls, #120 among girls’ names). The 46 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,355 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,599 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,115 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,707 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,860 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,534 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,938 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,792 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,213 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,252 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,149 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,507 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,332 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,870 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,368 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,537 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,171 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,174 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,104 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,235 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,839 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,600 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,246 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,718 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,515 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 62 | #2,462 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 57 | #2,506 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,287 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 63 | #2,176 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,764 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,129 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,325 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,010 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,404 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,191 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,260 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,788 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,869 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,905 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,917 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,980 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,664 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 58 | #1,819 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,791 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,719 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 70 | #1,647 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 81 | #1,476 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 67 | #1,601 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 92 | #1,284 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 83 | #1,311 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 87 | #1,281 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 78 | #1,347 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 77 | #1,315 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 95 | #1,148 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 110 | #1,096 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 99 | #1,172 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 99 | #1,111 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 95 | #1,093 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 122 | #929 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 127 | #892 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 136 | #858 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 162 | #825 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 201 | #722 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 171 | #798 | 0.09 |
| 1961 | 206 | #724 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 232 | #668 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 251 | #629 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 247 | #624 | 0.12 |
| 1957 | 297 | #556 | 0.15 |
| 1956 | 319 | #522 | 0.16 |
| 1955 | 344 | #489 | 0.18 |
| 1954 | 378 | #453 | 0.19 |
| 1953 | 434 | #412 | 0.23 |
| 1952 | 415 | #416 | 0.22 |
| 1951 | 452 | #383 | 0.25 |
| 1950 | 533 | #337 | 0.31 |
| 1949 | 542 | #334 | 0.32 |
| 1948 | 570 | #329 | 0.34 |
| 1947 | 595 | #321 | 0.34 |
| 1946 | 603 | #298 | 0.38 |
| 1945 | 586 | #288 | 0.45 |
| 1944 | 643 | #272 | 0.48 |
| 1943 | 692 | #268 | 0.50 |
| 1942 | 767 | #247 | 0.57 |
| 1941 | 723 | #239 | 0.60 |
| 1940 | 750 | #221 | 0.66 |
| 1939 | 737 | #227 | 0.67 |
| 1938 | 804 | #211 | 0.73 |
| 1937 | 849 | #200 | 0.80 |
| 1936 | 816 | #205 | 0.78 |
| 1935 | 870 | #198 | 0.83 |
| 1934 | 955 | #185 | 0.91 |
| 1933 | 1,025 | #174 | 1.0 |
| 1932 | 1,177 | #164 | 1.1 |
| 1931 | 1,094 | #169 | 1.0 |
| 1930 | 1,225 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 1929 | 1,199 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 1928 | 1,361 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1927 | 1,446 | #160 | 1.2 |
| 1926 | 1,572 | #153 | 1.3 |
| 1925 | 1,656 | #151 | 1.4 |
| 1924 | 1,708 | #152 | 1.4 |
| 1923 | 1,776 | #142 | 1.5 |
| 1922 | 1,867 | #135 | 1.6 |
| 1921 | 1,892 | #135 | 1.5 |
| 1920 | 1,979 | #127 | 1.7 |
| 1919 | 1,981 | #121 | 1.8 |
| 1918 | 2,014 | #120 | 1.7 |
| 1917 | 1,961 | #115 | 1.8 |
| 1916 | 1,883 | #116 | 1.8 |
| 1915 | 1,927 | #105 | 2.0 |
| 1914 | 1,617 | #99 | 2.1 |
| 1913 | 1,488 | #91 | 2.4 |
| 1912 | 1,425 | #87 | 2.6 |
| 1911 | 1,100 | #88 | 2.6 |
| 1910 | 1,237 | #78 | 3.1 |
| 1909 | 1,071 | #79 | 3.1 |
| 1908 | 1,085 | #76 | 3.2 |
| 1907 | 1,089 | #74 | 3.4 |
| 1906 | 955 | #76 | 3.2 |
| 1905 | 1,085 | #68 | 3.7 |
| 1904 | 964 | #73 | 3.5 |
| 1903 | 1,016 | #64 | 3.9 |
| 1902 | 971 | #72 | 3.7 |
| 1901 | 873 | #72 | 3.6 |
| 1900 | 1,237 | #62 | 4.1 |
| 1899 | 886 | #68 | 3.8 |
| 1898 | 1,085 | #61 | 4.2 |
| 1897 | 956 | #67 | 4.1 |
| 1896 | 1,001 | #65 | 4.2 |
| 1895 | 1,012 | #62 | 4.3 |
| 1894 | 1,003 | #63 | 4.5 |
| 1893 | 1,003 | #61 | 4.7 |
| 1892 | 1,031 | #57 | 4.9 |
| 1891 | 916 | #57 | 4.9 |
| 1890 | 1,005 | #52 | 5.3 |
| 1889 | 909 | #53 | 5.1 |
| 1888 | 991 | #50 | 5.5 |
| 1887 | 798 | #52 | 5.5 |
| 1886 | 837 | #48 | 5.8 |
| 1885 | 783 | #47 | 5.9 |
| 1884 | 738 | #50 | 5.7 |
| 1883 | 696 | #47 | 6.2 |
| 1882 | 650 | #47 | 6.0 |
| 1881 | 565 | #47 | 6.1 |
| 1880 | 560 | #49 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fannie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fannie has been given almost only to girls: 369 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Fannie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fannie, and how old are they?
13,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 16% of the 85,949 Americans ever recorded as Fannie. The median Fannie alive today is 74 years old; half are between 56 and 83.
The 2020 Census counted 13,408 people named Fannie (13,378 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,661 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4,190 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5,180 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 940 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 864 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 692 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Fannie born?
The states with the most babies named Fannie are Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 5,979 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Alabama | 5,685 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Mississippi | 4,815 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| North Carolina | 4,770 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Texas | 3,314 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 3,142 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| New York | 3,064 | #1,707 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 2,985 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Tennessee | 2,716 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,568 | #701 | 0.6× |
Where Fannie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fannie is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fannie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 96,311 babies since 1880, Fannie is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 64 babies (72%), again the most given.
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 Fannie
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 Fannie and names like it
- Compare Fannie and FannyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sFannie peaked in 1918.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fannie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Fannie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Fannie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.