Nannie

Last seen for girls in 1991 at #11,509 · Last seen for boys in 1925 at #4,197
Given to girls 99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1882 · 299 births
Debut · girls
248 births
In top 100 · girls
8 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
25,560
since 1880

Nannie over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201905peak #86, 1882girls
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First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Nannie was already there! It came in at #87, and was given to 248 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1980, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Nannie is popular in 1905

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Nannie
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1991
  • Biggest jump: 12 spots in 1909 (#182 → #170)
  • Biggest drop: 127 spots in 1949 (#821 → #948)
Rise & fade · girls
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1882 at #86 (299 births)
  • Births halved by 1945, 63 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 8 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 8 yrs · run 1880–1884
  • Top 1,000: 71 yrs · run 1880–1950
Share of babies · girls
1 in 356
  • Highest: 1 in 356 girls born in 1881 were named Nannie (0.28%)
  • Latest: 1 in 312,501 girls born in 1991 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #86 in 1882, was only 1 in 361 (0.28%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 20.5% of all girls named Nannie (5,243) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s3,165#86 (1882)#94
1890s3,599#112 (1893)#126
1900s3,391#136 (1900)#162
1910s4,997#197 (1910)#237
1920s5,243#258 (1920)#291
1930s2,740#349 (1931)#397
1940s1,438#471 (1940)#667
1950s640#937 (1950)#1,308
1960s232#1,855 (1960)#2,662
1970s93#4,523 (1972)#5,940
1980s16#9,110 (1981)#10,607
1990s6#11,509 (1991)#11,509

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Nannie in 1905

girls
#172
303 births · 1 in 962 girls

Top girls' names in 1905

  1. #1Mary16,067
  2. #2Helen6,811
  3. #3Margaret5,690
  4. #4Anna5,424
  5. #5Ruth5,068
  6. #6Elizabeth4,121
  7. #7Dorothy3,937
  8. #8Mildred3,758
  9. #9Marie3,643
  10. #10Alice3,610
  11. #172Nannie303
More about 1905

girls

291,617 girls got a published name in 1905; 1 in 962 of them was named Nannie, which outranked 92.3% of the 2,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Nannie
  1. #168Norma311
  2. #170Freda310
  3. #171Janie306
  4. #172Nannie303
  5. #172Sally303
  6. #174Allie298
  7. #175Cecelia293
  8. #176Isabel292

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1904
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,052Orma#1,877 → #825
  2. ↑ 951Doretha#1,877 → #926
  3. ↑ 909Doshie#1,877 → #968
  4. ↑ 862Sydney#1,659 → #797
  5. ↑ 834Dulcie#1,659 → #825
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,126Luberta#805 → #1,931
  2. ↓ 966Diane#965 → #1,931
  3. ↓ 966Pearly#965 → #1,931
  4. ↓ 843Melinda#853 → #1,696
  5. ↓ 765Izora#773 → #1,538

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1905 →