Meaning and history
Fanny is a diminutive of Frances, Françoise, or Stéphanie. In the English-speaking world, it became vulgar slang in the late 19th century and has since fallen out of common use as a given name.
20062006: 34 births, rank #4,265
2007: 39 births, rank #3,983
2008: 50 births, rank #3,316
2009: 44 births, rank #3,619
2010: 25 births, rank #5,414
20112011: 30 births, rank #4,681
2012: 27 births, rank #5,114
2013: 17 births, rank #7,031
2014: 31 births, rank #4,544
2015: 51 births, rank #3,211
20162016: 29 births, rank #4,734
2017: 19 births, rank #6,287
2018: 16 births, rank #7,100
2019: 19 births, rank #6,176
2020: 10 births, rank #9,546
20212021: 23 births, rank #5,398
2022: 27 births, rank #4,907
2023: 19 births, rank #6,169
2024: 25 births, rank #5,148
20252025: 18 births, rank #6,325
Fanny rose from #980 to #878 for girls between 1936 and 1938. Its highest annual birth count came in 1916, with 241 births.