Nannie
Nannie was last recorded in 1991, when 6 babies were given it; 25,580 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,240 Americans named Nannie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (9% of everyone recorded); the median is 81 years old and half are between 73 and 88.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nannie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nannie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nannie is “a diminutive of the female given names Ann and Annie.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nannie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,578, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
655 babies in 1920, the peak
Nannie peaked in 1920, when 655 girls were given it, #258 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | #12,578 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,177 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,953 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,113 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,840 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,242 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,411 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,917 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,631 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 8 | #6,470 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,703 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,387 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,299 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,074 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,128 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,841 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,814 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,883 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,394 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,236 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,510 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,453 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,876 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,811 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,568 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,603 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 46 | #1,573 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 67 | #1,239 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 61 | #1,270 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 79 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 79 | #1,064 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 86 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 91 | #940 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 88 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 112 | #827 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 123 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 123 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 126 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1944 | 154 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1943 | 164 | #588 | 0.12 |
| 1942 | 166 | #573 | 0.12 |
| 1941 | 179 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1940 | 203 | #472 | 0.18 |
| 1939 | 202 | #470 | 0.18 |
| 1938 | 209 | #468 | 0.19 |
| 1937 | 236 | #422 | 0.22 |
| 1936 | 253 | #403 | 0.24 |
| 1935 | 269 | #391 | 0.26 |
| 1934 | 283 | #379 | 0.27 |
| 1933 | 290 | #377 | 0.29 |
| 1932 | 307 | #363 | 0.29 |
| 1931 | 332 | #349 | 0.31 |
| 1930 | 359 | #352 | 0.32 |
| 1929 | 375 | #334 | 0.34 |
| 1928 | 420 | #325 | 0.36 |
| 1927 | 459 | #312 | 0.38 |
| 1926 | 515 | #296 | 0.43 |
| 1925 | 521 | #295 | 0.43 |
| 1924 | 561 | #279 | 0.45 |
| 1923 | 548 | #275 | 0.45 |
| 1922 | 579 | #269 | 0.48 |
| 1921 | 610 | #272 | 0.49 |
| 1920 | 655 | #258 | 0.55 |
| 1919 | 621 | #256 | 0.55 |
| 1918 | 631 | #255 | 0.55 |
| 1917 | 596 | #254 | 0.55 |
| 1916 | 593 | #250 | 0.57 |
| 1915 | 607 | #241 | 0.62 |
| 1914 | 457 | #247 | 0.60 |
| 1913 | 402 | #242 | 0.64 |
| 1912 | 427 | #217 | 0.77 |
| 1911 | 329 | #215 | 0.79 |
| 1910 | 334 | #197 | 0.84 |
| 1909 | 355 | #170 | 1.0 |
| 1908 | 313 | #183 | 0.94 |
| 1907 | 320 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 1906 | 323 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 1905 | 303 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 1904 | 289 | #171 | 1.0 |
| 1903 | 325 | #157 | 1.2 |
| 1902 | 359 | #148 | 1.4 |
| 1901 | 358 | #139 | 1.5 |
| 1900 | 446 | #136 | 1.5 |
| 1899 | 331 | #142 | 1.4 |
| 1898 | 359 | #141 | 1.4 |
| 1897 | 333 | #144 | 1.4 |
| 1896 | 400 | #119 | 1.7 |
| 1895 | 355 | #129 | 1.5 |
| 1894 | 374 | #123 | 1.7 |
| 1893 | 392 | #112 | 1.8 |
| 1892 | 385 | #119 | 1.8 |
| 1891 | 315 | #125 | 1.7 |
| 1890 | 355 | #112 | 1.9 |
| 1889 | 396 | #100 | 2.2 |
| 1888 | 373 | #104 | 2.1 |
| 1887 | 340 | #95 | 2.3 |
| 1886 | 347 | #97 | 2.4 |
| 1885 | 285 | #104 | 2.1 |
| 1884 | 314 | #97 | 2.4 |
| 1883 | 305 | #87 | 2.7 |
| 1882 | 299 | #86 | 2.8 |
| 1881 | 258 | #88 | 2.8 |
| 1880 | 248 | #87 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nannie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nannie has been given almost only to girls: 20 boys in 104 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nannie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nannie, and how old are they?
2,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 9% of the 25,580 Americans ever recorded as Nannie. The median Nannie alive today is 81 years old; half are between 73 and 88.
The 2020 Census counted 2,449 people named Nannie (2,440 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,481 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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 | 1,090 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 905 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 168 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 21 |
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 Nannie born?
The states with the most babies named Nannie are Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 2,968 | not ranked | 7.3× |
| North Carolina | 2,531 | not ranked | 4.6× |
| Kentucky | 2,144 | not ranked | 5.1× |
| Tennessee | 1,522 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Texas | 868 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Mississippi | 789 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| South Carolina | 762 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Alabama | 744 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 626 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| West Virginia | 432 | not ranked | 1.6× |
Where Nannie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nannie is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1910 it was given 7.3 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 Nannie 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 27,345 babies since 1880, Nannie is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 none of their 25 babies recorded by SSA was a Nannie (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 Nannie
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 Nannie and names like it
- Compare Nannie and NanieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sNannie peaked in 1920.
- Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nannie since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Nannie.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Nannie alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with NMost given first.