Fanny
About Fanny
As this word is less often used to mean derriere, it becomes more possible to view Fanny as the kind of appealingly quaint nickname name, like Josie and Nellie, that many parents are favoring now.
As of October 2026, Fanny ranked #6397 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #183 in 1880.
Editor's take: The name Fanny is a girl's name of English, Latin origin meaning "from France; free man".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4,576 | 31 | 17.4 |
| 2015 | #3,227 | 51 | 28.6 |
| 2016 | #4,768 | 29 | 16.4 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | #4,946 | 27 | 16.5 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Famous Fannys
- 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 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