Nannie

Where Nannie comes from

The dictionaries list Nannie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given names Ann and Annie — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #87 among girls — 248 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #86
    299 babies named Nannie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1905
    Nannie Doss born
    American serial killer
  4. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #654.
  5. 1976
    Nannie de Villiers born
    South African tennis player
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Ann and Annie.
Namesakes
  • Nannie Doss · American serial killer, 1905–1965
  • Nannie de Villiers · South African tennis player, born 1976
  • Nannie Helen Burroughs · American activist, 1879–1961
  • Nannie Kuiper · Dutch children's writer, 1939–2025
  • Nannie Louise Wright · US composer, pianist, and teacher, 1879–1958

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.