Fanta
Fanta was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,587 among girls’ names; 1,168 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Fanta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fanta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fanta?
#4,587 among girls’ names, 2025
Fanta rose from #5,344 in 2015 to #4,587 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 18.7 per million.
66 babies in 1977, the peak
Fanta peaked in 1977, when 66 girls were given it, #1,614 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,587 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,143 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,594 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,365 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,281 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,152 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,077 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,694 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,418 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,114 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,344 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,815 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,801 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,414 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,843 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,908 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,977 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,209 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,500 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,388 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,895 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,199 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,370 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,420 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,646 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,101 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,733 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,201 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,423 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,922 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,386 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,087 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,667 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,177 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,967 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,557 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,996 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,565 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,875 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,911 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,976 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,531 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,011 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,596 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,085 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,813 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,529 | 22.2 |
| 1977 | 66 | #1,614 | 43.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fanta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fanta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fanta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fanta, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,168 Americans ever recorded as Fanta. The median Fanta alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,620 people named Fanta (1,587 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 997 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 151 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 469 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 358 |
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 Fanta born?
The states with the most babies named Fanta are New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 408 | #1,446 | 5.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 52 | #954 | 1.1× |
| Maryland | 20 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Fanta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fanta is most over-represented in New York: since 1977 it was given 5.4 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 Fanta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fanta
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 Fanta and names like it
- Compare Fanta and AmmyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sFanta peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fanta since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Fanta.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Fanta alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with FMost given first.