Fanney
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Fanney is a given name, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and English, written in the Latin script.
- ISIceland1 in 459◐
- DKDenmark1 in 419K
- SESweden1 in 510K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈798 ●
- Sources
- 90 ●
- 1 in 459 ◐
across 3 countries
2.0K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | 764△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 459 | 764 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 233 | 1.7K rec. | — | 183 | Fanney | 90 |
| SE Sweden | 20△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 14 | — | 1 in 419K | 14 | — | — |
| DE Germany | 7 | 9 rec. | — | — | Fanney | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Fanney | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | 5 | 5 rec. | — | — | Fanney | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 1 rec. | — | 16 | — | 1 |
| CL Chile | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 764 people in Iceland bear this name (about 1 in 459). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Icelandic3K85%
- English2617%
- Spanish802%
- Danish552%
- Norwegian Bokmål161%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 2,981 | 85% |
| English | 261 | 7% |
| Spanish | 80 | 2% |
| Danish | 55 | 2% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 16 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 13 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 12 years between 2001–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttirb. 1987ISicleandic poet, musician and artist
- Fanney Inga Birkisdóttirb. 2005ISIcelandic association football player
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 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 764 | #196 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 474 | #98 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 422 | #87 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 183 | #104,276 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 174 | #96,918 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 169 | #105,600 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #24,407 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #20,834 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14 | #6,248 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 12 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 34 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fanney?
- We estimate roughly 798 people bear Fanney (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fanney have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 764 people bear Fanney in Iceland, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Fanney most common?
- Fanney is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 459 people carrying it.
- Is Fanney a male or female name?
- Fanney 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Fanney”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.