Fanny

Diminutive of Frances

"free man"

Fanny Origin and Meaning

The name Fanny is a girl's name meaning "free man".

As this word is less often used to mean derriere, it becomes more possible to view Fanny as the kind of appealingly quaint nickname name, like Josie and Nellie, that many parents are favoring now.

Fanny Rank in US Top 1000

# 992 in the US

Popularity of the name Fanny

• 1396 Nameberry 2020

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Famous People Named Fanny

• Fanny Brice (born Fania Borach) American actress/comedian
• Frances "Fanny" Burney English novelist
• Fanny Bullock Workman American geographer and explorer
• Fanny Mendelssohn German composer; sister of composer Felix Mendelssohn
• Frances Jane "Fanny" Crosby American blind composer of more than 8,000 hymns
• Francina Elsje "Fanny" Blankers Koen, Dutch track athlete
• Sarah "Fanny" Durack first Australian female to win a swimming Olympic gold medal
• Frances "Fanny" Imlay daughter feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft; half,sister of novelist Mary Shelley
• Fanny Rask Swedish ice hockey player
• Fanny Cradock (born Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey) English restaurant critic and TV personality

The name Fanny in Pop Culture

• Fanny Price character in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park"
• Fanny Davilow mother of Gwendolen in George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"
• Fanny "Fan" Keith younger sister of Millie Keith in "A Life of Faith" series
• Fanny Hill fictional heroine of her own letters to a friend, "describing her sexual experiences in chaste language in pornographic tour de force subject of many legal trials since its publication" (1748)
• Fanny Price character in "Of Human Bondage" (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
• Fanny character in Enid Blyton's "Faraway Tree" series (in some modern reprints she is now named Frannie because of Fanny's unpleasant connotations)
• Aunt Fanny character in Enid Blyton's "Famous Five" series
• Fanny Dashwood character in 'Sense and Sensibility' by Jane Austen
• Fanny Redletts character in Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate"
• Fanny Fulbright aka Numbuh 86 character on animated series "Codename: Kids Next Door
• Aunt Fanny character in the movie "Robots"
• Fanny British slang for the vagina
• Fanny American slang for the buttocks