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Fana

#13,752 in 2025Girls' name

Clipping of Ștefana

Fana has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #13,752 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Fana, 2025

1 in 553,000

Fana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fana: meaning, origin, and history

Clipping of Ștefana

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fana means

Fana is a clipping of Ștefana.

Origin, language, and formation

Fana is used in Romanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ștefana.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Fana between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1988; its best national rank was #9,564 in 1988.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,752
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fana was born before 1988 — so the typical Fana is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
18
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Fana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 1988 (7)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,564
1988

Spellings of Fana

Fana is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 12.7% against Fana's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Fana around the world

Where Fana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2012–2012
    #6,513
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1964–1964
    #653
    in 1964

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Fana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,752
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,564
1988
Peak year
1988
7 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Fana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Fana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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