Fanna
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fanna is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- SESweden1 in 928K◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 1M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈31 ●
- Sources
- 22 ●
- 1 in 928K ◐
across 4 countries
316 records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 25 | 33 rec. | — | 5 | Fanna | 8 |
| ES Spain | 19 | 19 rec. | — | 15 | Fanna | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 17 | 0 rec. | 1 in 1M | 17 | — | 1 |
| MX Mexico | 12 | 10 rec. | — | — | Fanna | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 11 | — | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 217 rec. | — | 33 | Fanna | 22 |
| NG Nigeria | 6 | 5 rec. | — | — | Fanna | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 6 | 3 rec. | — | — | Fanna | 6 |
| PL Poland | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 2 rec. | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 rec. | — | 23 | — | 2 |
| FR France | — | — | — | 7 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English78543%
- Swahili1579%
- Arabic1448%
- French955%
- 875%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 785 | 43% |
| Swahili | 157 | 9% |
| Arabic | 144 | 8% |
| French | 95 | 5% |
| 87 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Fanna is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, informal form of y fan yna (“there”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cim, frying pan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Fanna Kolarovab. 1949BGBulgarian painter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 18 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 33 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 23 | #43,695 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 17 | #16,282 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 16 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 14 | #23,864 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #33,779 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 6 | #65,429 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 3 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fanna?
- We estimate roughly 31 people bear Fanna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fanna have the most bearers?
- Fanna is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled fanna.
- Where is Fanna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fanna is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 928 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Fanna a male or female name?
- Fanna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fanna”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.