Nannie — girls' name

What the Data Says About Nannie

The Social Security Administration has registered 25,560 babies named Nannie between 1880 and 1991, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nannie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1991. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 655 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nannie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 5,243 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Nannie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Virginia, which accounts for 2,968 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Nannie in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nannie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 25,560 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.