Fanny is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Fanny is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Fanny. In the SmartGenius ranking, Fanny is #4,724 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Fanny.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Fanny annualy. This means that there have been girls named Fanny who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Fanny have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Fanny even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record of rank #179 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Fanny was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Fanny has never been ranked higher than #179. In 2022, she rivaled the 4,320 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 27 girls named Fanny were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Fanny were born, there have been 76 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an F. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Fanny is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.2% of all girls' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with F that are quite popular, the most common at present is Frances.
If your name is Fanny and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Fanny, you can simply say:
Fox
Apple
Nut
Nut
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Fanny
Fanny
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
F
A
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Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Fanny sounds like this:
