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Female Name
Usage
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Icelandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) English pet form of Frances (see Franciscus) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
2) Pet form of Stefanie (see Stephania) [1] [3] [4] [6]
3) Variant spelling of Fanný [8]
Related Names
See also Fani
Male
Fannyarson
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Female
Fannyardóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Fanny
|
Genitive: |
Fannys
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Fanny
|
Genitive: |
Fannyn
|
Partitive: |
Fannya
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Fanny
|
Accusative: |
Fanny
|
Dative: |
Fanny
|
Genitive: |
Fannyar
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Fanny
|
Genitive: |
Fannys
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Fanny
|
Genitive: |
Fannys
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Name Days
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
2 March
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Sweden
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9 February
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 2,630 people were named Fanny (percentage of first or only given name: 78 %) [10]
- "Fanny och Alexander" is a 1982 Oscar-winning historical drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century.
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[12] |
|
7961 |
10772 |
7961 |
10769 |
0 |
3 |
Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
10809 |
n.a. |
10809 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[14] |
|
326 |
n.a. |
326 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Iceland[15] |
|
8 |
14 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[16] |
|
0 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[17] |
|
624 |
n.a. |
624 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [12][14][17][13]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [18]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Fanny (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables