Fanni
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., seit dem 19
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/fɒni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fanni is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 75th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 396(measured from records)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 744as Fanny
- FRFrance≈1 in 884as Fanny
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Fanni itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 362 (measured from records)
- 1 in 396 (inferred from the name graph)
≈77,000 named Fanny, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Fanny in FR France, SE Sweden, HK Hong Kong and Fani in EC Ecuador, PE Peru, VE Venezuela.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)weibl. Vom., seit dem 19. Jh. vorkom mende eindeutschende Schreibweise von
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fanni counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #177 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 884 | 80K | Fanny | 362 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 36,869as Fanny | 1 in 459 | 37K | Fani | 21 |
| HU Hungary | #146 | 24,651 | 1 in 396 | 25K | Fanni | 136 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Fani | 14 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Fani | 31 |
| SE Sweden | — | 10,868as Fanny | 1 in 939 | 11K | Fanny | 45 |
| HK Hong Kong | #75 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 744 | — | Fanny | 66 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INEC — civil registry names; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Fanni is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, genitive/vocative singular of Fannius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, genre, type
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Phannias ben Samuelb. 100not in their usual name1st century CE High Priest of Israel
- Fanny Freund-Markusb. 1872ATAustrian opinion journalist (1872-1943)
- Fanni Luukkonenb. 1882FIFinnish women's organization leader (1882–1947)
- Fanni Halonenb. 1902FIFinnish actress (1902-1981)
- Fanni Gyarmatib. 1912HUHungarian teacher (1912-2014)
- Fanni Kenyeresb. 1978HUHungarian handball player
- Fanni Meteliusb. 1987SESwedish actor
- Emilia Pikkarainenb. 1992FInot in their usual nameFinnish swimmer
- Fanni Pigniczkib. 2000HUHungarian rhythmic gymnast (2000-)
- Fanni Gyurinovicsb. 2001HUHungarian swimmer (2001–)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 24 | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Fanni a male or female name?
- Fanni is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025), Finland (DVV), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024).
- What does the name Fanni mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., seit dem 19.
- What are other forms of the name Fanni?
- In the etymology graph, Stephanie, Frances and Francisca are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Franciska and Stefánia.
- How do you pronounce Fanni?
- A machine transcription gives /fɒni/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Fanni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Fanny in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Fanni most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fanni is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 396 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fanni?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 24,651 people named Fanni in 2025, about 1 in 396 residents.
- How common is Fanni compared with other names?
- In France, Fanni is the 177th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fanniThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fanni” — the 177th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.