Nanie
Nanie was last recorded in 1947, when 6 babies were given it; 778 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nanie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nanie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,130, in 1947; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1914, the peak
Nanie peaked in 1914, when 32 girls were given it, #1,073 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 6 | #5,130 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,644 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,684 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,680 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,670 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,780 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,052 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,982 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,708 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,181 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 23 | #1,692 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,262 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,922 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,323 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,461 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,101 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,243 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,081 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,656 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,553 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,132 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,940 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,898 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,782 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,601 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 32 | #1,073 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,404 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,097 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,348 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,074 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,030 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 15 | #998 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,446 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,120 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,294 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 12 | #992 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,205 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 15 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,346 | 0.03 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,140 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 16 | #833 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,180 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,206 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 11 | #943 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 14 | #824 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 12 | #828 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 11 | #860 | 0.06 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 11 | #825 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 8 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,069 | 0.04 |
| 1885 | 12 | #651 | 0.09 |
| 1884 | 14 | #576 | 0.11 |
| 1883 | 7 | #798 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 9 | #661 | 0.08 |
| 1881 | 10 | #573 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nanie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nanie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nanie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nanie, and how old are they?
An estimated 25 Americans named Nanie 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 121 people named Nanie (113 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 58 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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 Nanie?
Nanie is a less common spelling of Nannie: SSA has recorded 778 Nanie and 25,580 Nannie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 33,735 babies since 1880, Nanie is the fourth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 255 babies recorded by SSA was a Nanie (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 Nanie
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 Nanie and names like it
- Compare Nanie and NannieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sNanie peaked in 1914.
- Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nanie since 1910.
- The top names of 1914The year the most babies were named Nanie.
- Names starting with NMost given first.