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Fanie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Stefanus

Fanie has been given to 30 babies in the U.S. since 1904. 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 1916, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Fanie, 1918

1 in 362,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fanie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Stefanus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fanie means

Fanie is a diminutive of Stefanus.

Origin, language, and formation

Fanie is used in Afrikaans.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stefanus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 30 girls were recorded with the name Fanie between 1904 and 1918. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,982 in 1904.

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 Fanie?

Fanie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1918, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1918
1 in 362,000
6 of 2,171,052 births
Among girls only
1 in 193,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1918
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
250,811 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fanie 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 1918 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 250,811 children born in 1918 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fanie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fanies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fanie was born before 1907 — so the typical Fanie is around 118 today.

Median birth year
1907
About 118 years old
Biggest decade
1900s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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Choose a decade

1900s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Fanie 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 1916 (9)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,982
1904

Spellings of Fanie

Fanie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 15.0% against Fanie'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.

Fanie around the world

Where Fanie 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
    1900–2016
    #6,722
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1991–2002
    #2,286
    in 2002

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fanie 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
#1,982
1904
Peak year
1916
9 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
1918
All-time count
30
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fanie

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

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Sibling names for Fanie

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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