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Fani

Girls' name

Short form of Theofania

Fani has been given to 64 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Fani, 2012

1 in 732,000

Fani over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fani: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Theofania

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fani means

Fani is a short form of Theofania.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fani is used in Greek.

Origin, language, and formation

Fani is used in English and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Theofania and Estefanía.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Fani is pronounced /ˈfani/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 64 girls were recorded with the name Fani between 1979 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2008; its best national rank was #8,301 in 1979.

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 Fani?

Fani had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fani 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 2012 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 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fani was born before 2000 — so the typical Fani is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
64
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Fani 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
0%
Peak was 2008 (9)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,301
1979

Spellings of Fani

Fani is not the most common spelling — Ann is, with 18.8% against Fani'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.

Fani around the world

Where Fani 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
    1977–2020
    #7,245
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1963–1974
    #683
    in 1974

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.

Fani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,301
1979
Peak year
2008
9 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
64
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fani

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

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Sibling names for Fani

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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