Fannie

Where Fannie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Fannie.

  • Vowel-ended
Fannie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #49 among girls, with 560 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #47
    783 babies named Fannie, its best rank.
  3. 1917
    Fannie Lou Hamer born
    American civil rights activist
  4. 1944
    Fannie Flagg born
    American actress, comedian and author
  5. 1954
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #453.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Fannie Lou Hamer · American civil rights activist, 1917–1977
  • Fannie Flagg · American actress, comedian and author, born 1944
  • Fannie Ward · American actress, 1871–1952
  • Fannie Farmer · American chef, 1857–1915
  • Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler · American musician, 1863–1927

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.