Fanny

Diminutive of Frances, English from Latin

"from France; free man"

Fanny Origin and Meaning

Variation of Euphemia

Fanny Rank in US Top 1000

# 992 in the US

Popularity of the name Fanny

• 1396 Nameberry 2020

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Famous People Named Fanny

• Fanny Brice (born Fania Borach) American actress/comedian
• Frances "Fanny" Burney English novelist
• Fanny Bullock Workman American geographer and explorer
• Fanny Mendelssohn German composer; sister of composer Felix Mendelssohn
• Frances Jane "Fanny" Crosby American blind composer of more than 8,000 hymns
• Francina Elsje "Fanny" Blankers Koen, Dutch track athlete
• Sarah "Fanny" Durack first Australian female to win a swimming Olympic gold medal
• Frances "Fanny" Imlay daughter feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft; half,sister of novelist Mary Shelley
• Fanny Rask Swedish ice hockey player
• Fanny Cradock (born Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey) English restaurant critic and TV personality

The name Fanny in Pop Culture

• Fanny Price character in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park"
• Fanny Davilow mother of Gwendolen in George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"
• Fanny "Fan" Keith younger sister of Millie Keith in "A Life of Faith" series
• Fanny Hill fictional heroine of her own letters to a friend, "describing her sexual experiences in chaste language in pornographic tour de force subject of many legal trials since its publication" (1748)
• Fanny Price character in "Of Human Bondage" (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
• Fanny character in Enid Blyton's "Faraway Tree" series (in some modern reprints she is now named Frannie because of Fanny's unpleasant connotations)
• Aunt Fanny character in Enid Blyton's "Famous Five" series
• Fanny Dashwood character in 'Sense and Sensibility' by Jane Austen
• Fanny Redletts character in Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate"
• Fanny Fulbright aka Numbuh 86 character on animated series "Codename: Kids Next Door
• Aunt Fanny character in the movie "Robots"
• Fanny British slang for the vagina
• Fanny American slang for the buttocks