Fanny

Diminutive of Frances, English from Latin

"from France; free man"

Updated Wed Oct 15 2025

Fanny Origin and Meaning

Variation of Euphemia

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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

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